foundation

if u are sitting across from and proceed to tell me that u sometimes feel lost and don't know what to believe in, please don't be surprised to hear me say, "you had no foundation while u where growing up." then if u go on to tell me that u are raising your kids in no faith but you make sure they know about all the religions, don't be surprised when i say, "u are setting your kids up to feel the same way u do right now."

as a parent it is our duty to raise up our children so they have a foundation to stand on or even fall back on when they are older. i love my catholic faith but really,children raised in any faith will be much stronger when they are older then a child who isn't. people i know who went to church regularly as a child have a better sense of who they are and they r not searching all the time for the "answer". They know the answer or they know where to go to find it. For petesake Mary and Joseph (who are model parents for the world) did not to Jesus say, "hey, when u get older u can choose for yourself what to believe." (granted He was the Son of God and they knew this, but i digress) they taught Jesus the Jewish faith, they lived the Jewish faith. They raised Him up to be the Man he was Supposed to be. i find it just plain silly to say, "i don't want to push my child into a religion, he can choose when they get older." really, they get to choose. will they really choose? a child raised in a faith is more likely to hold onto the faith than a child raised without one. what do these type of parents hope to gain by not letting their children grow in faith for God? what is it they are truly afraid of?

this has been a word from Nicole