{"id":11719,"date":"2006-07-20T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2006\/07\/20\/a-baby"},"modified":"2006-07-20T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T15:06:00","slug":"a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2006\/07\/20\/a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"A Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You know, it\u2019s amazing to think that a little baby came to save us all.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing to reflect on the power to conquer the grave that was packed into that small child.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s absolutely amazing to think that a cry never came from Christ\u2019s mouth when He was an infant. Such trust and self-sacrifice he showed as even just a tiny baby.<\/p>\n

I wonder so much about His childhood in light of his display of self-sacrifice in his first encounters in the world. You know, like kids are so selfish these days. There are a few families, in comparison to the millions, that are sincerely teaching their children that \u201cit\u2019s not all about them\u201d and it\u2019s good to take care of others first, not just taking care of them after you have gotten your fill. But so many children never receive that message of self-sacrifice. I wonder if that\u2019s why later in life it is so much harder to accept Christ. After a lifetime of learning that you are to be \u201cthe best\u201d and that you are to fight for your own benefits, it\u2019s really hard to think of willingly giving your opportunities to another when there doesn\u2019t seem to be more opportunities being handed out. I wonder if that\u2019s one of the reasons why it\u2019s so easy for people to harden their hearts to Christ. I wonder how we can break that cycle. What things could I think of to expose even my little Kindergarten class to that would allow them to see that it is our job as Christians to serve others before ourselves? It\u2019s so funny to think that while I could come up with a long list of places I\u2019d love to take my Kindergarteners there would be an equally long list of \u201cdangers\u201d that would forbid us from going. Woe to the constraints of fear. And I long so desperately to tell these supervisors and these parents that we cannot live our life in fear. Some things are worth doing for Christ. And yet, then I realize that some of these parents are the very ones that have hardened their hearts to Christ. It\u2019s such a vicious cycle to break.<\/p>\n

One little girl made a table of some sort at art yesterday in my Kindergarten class. She glued some match boxes to a purple plastic lid and then glued a popsicle stick to the top of the lid to make some kind of a handle for the table. \u201cI have to pretend because Daddy doesn\u2019t like to hear about Jesus things\u201d she explained to me. \u201cWhat do you have to pretend for?\u201d I asked her. \u201cWell, it\u2019s an altar table.\u201d She explained \u201cand Daddy\u2019s family didn\u2019t raise him to love Jesus so he doesn\u2019t like to hear about it and I could get in trouble. I asked him if he\u2019d think about loving Jesus again. He said n-o-p-e spells nope.\u201d \u201cDo you love Jesus?\u201d I asked her \u201cYes. I love Jesus.\u201d She said with sincerity as she put her art supplies away and moved to a different station.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s such a vicious cycle to break.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s just so amazing how much Jesus clashed with the world even as a little baby.<\/p>\n

\u2026 Such faith that we are called to imitate. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know, it\u2019s amazing to think that a little baby came to save us all. It\u2019s amazing to reflect on the power to conquer the grave that was packed into that small child. It\u2019s absolutely amazing to think that a cry never came from Christ\u2019s mouth when He was an infant. Such trust and self-sacrifice… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}