Think About It

Every so often I will see something and my mind will immediately go back to something that was engrained in me when I was small. It might be a thought, a rationale, a word or a concept. I may not have thought of that particular idea for a long time – I might have even outgrown the belief that was instilled in me, but there it is popping out of somewhere deep inside me. I may not act on it, but it’s there. As I thought about this phenomenon the other day, it reminded me of the importance of raising our children correctly and properly. Deep seeded thoughts are established early and may not be properly evaluated by the immature brain. Even in the years to come, we may have to work twice as hard to overcome what we were exposed to in those early years. Thousands of years ago, the wise man Solomon reminded us, “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6). Even though each one of us will eventually make our own choices abo