Is No Negative?

My son and I were in the car today on the way home from physical therapy and a quick stop at the grocery store to get toilet paper (the total came to over $44!!??). Out of the blue he said to me, "Mom, if parents always told kids yes, they would never know what's right and what's wrong."

"Yes," I said a bit surprised, then a quick check of his logic before I replied, "I guess you're right." Hopefully, I concealed my wonderment.

"Yeah," he went on [in his I'm in character voice], "Mom, can I smoke?"

"Sure honey." [in his mom voice]

"Then, 18 years later he has lung cancer," [normal son/narrator voice]
"Mom! Why didn't you tell me no?" [in character voice]

From the mouth of babes (or eight year olds).

Apparently, his class had seen a "No Smoking" cartoon the day before in school-- but to leap from don't smoke, to his kernel of wisdom has me impressed. I'm also taking note of how he phrased his thought. It was from the positive angle, "... if parents always said yes," not the negative. Had I wanted to pass on wisdom of this sort, I know I certainly would've said it differently.

My son got me thinking and he's right-- how can our children know right from wrong if we always give them what they want? And, why not look at my no's positively for a change?

Pondering the wisdom of a child,
k8t

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Rapha'

Origin: Hebrew

Parts of Speach: Verb

Phonetic Spelling: raw-faw'

Definition

• 1. to heal, make healthful
• 1. (Qal) to heal
• 1. of God
• 2. healer, physician (of men)
• 3. of hurts of nations involving restored favour (fig)
• 4. of individual distresses (fig)
• 2. (Niphal) to be healed
• 1. literal (of persons)
• 2. of water, pottery
• 3. of national hurts (fig)
• 4. of personal distress (fig)
• 3. (Piel) to heal
• 1. literal
• 2. of national defects or hurts (fig)
• 4. (Hithpael) in order to get healed (infinitive)

[definition from crosswalk.com]

God, calling himself Jehovah-Rapha',

--I, the LORD, your Healer--
--I, the One Who Did Exist, The One Who Exists, The One Who Will Always Exist, your Healer--

is first found in Exodus 15: 26.

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Bitter Water

Exodus 15: 22-27 (NAS)
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter ; therefore it was named Marah. So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, "What shall we drink ?"
Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them. And He said, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer."
Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and
they camped there beside the waters.

Are are you exhausted, dry and looking for relief? Have you come upon bitter water?

Cry out to the LORD, call on His name, trust Him to enter into your situation and give you wisdom.

God made the bitter water sweet for the Israelites, He gave them wisdom and guidance on how to live their lives. He told them that He is the LORD who heals-- He is Jehovah-Rapha-- and then He brought them to shade, sweet food, water in plenty, and rest.

Resting in the LORD Who Heals,
k8t

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New Look : New Address

faceofagirl.com blog is moving to a new address with a new look. I loved the look of other site (maybe too much), so this is a hard move. The blog was having too many technical issues that took up my time and got me off on tangents not relevant to what needed to be done.

The old blog posts will slowly be ported to the new site here at Blogger and the new theme may get tweeked a bit as I go. My hope is that my brain fog will lift with less of me in the design and less of the up-keep on my shoulders.

If you get foag posts via email or feed reader, don't worry, your access should not be affected. If you read at the site, use this address: faceofagirl.blogspot.com.

Let me know if you have any issues. Happy Valentines Day!

k8t