The kids and I have started a bit of a routine every night before they lay down to bed: we talk. We talk about a lot of stuff, as of late we've started reading bits out of one of their childrens devotionals and it's prompted them to ask me some pretty serious, heart felt questions.
What is a soul and when we die is there really anything after this?
It's normal that my 11 year old would eventually start questioning if what I believe to be truth is actual truth and if he wants to make the choice for himself to accept it as truth.
I've often said that God doesn't force Himself on anyone and it's that kind of thinking that has caused me to do my best not to force my kids into believing the way that I believe. I do however nudge them in that direction but I think that completely forcing it without being an example myself, sends a highly contridictory message.
So how did I address this? Quit honestly I addressed it from my point of view and that can be highly debatible by some.
My belief that there is so much more after this, is to some naive thinking. However, I am a firm believer that we're not created to spend the time we spend here just to become dust in the wind and to pass into nothing. So yes I believe there's so much more than this life has to offer us.
In a world full of disease, hunger, war, if this is the best that it'll ever be then how can anyone ever mount up a bit of hope. If it's naive of me to believe in an afterlife with my creator, surrounded by people who have gone before me that I've loved in my life, then I'm making a choice to continue to be naive. I simply can't live in this life knowing that those beautiful innocent eyes that look up at me with their unknowing questions won't be with me in eternity.
Even the best of this world isn't enough to convince me that there isn't so much more after we pass from this world and I hope that my kids or anyone else reading this blog will pray for some faith to believe in that.
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What is a soul and when we die is there really anything after this?
It's normal that my 11 year old would eventually start questioning if what I believe to be truth is actual truth and if he wants to make the choice for himself to accept it as truth.
I've often said that God doesn't force Himself on anyone and it's that kind of thinking that has caused me to do my best not to force my kids into believing the way that I believe. I do however nudge them in that direction but I think that completely forcing it without being an example myself, sends a highly contridictory message.
So how did I address this? Quit honestly I addressed it from my point of view and that can be highly debatible by some.
My belief that there is so much more after this, is to some naive thinking. However, I am a firm believer that we're not created to spend the time we spend here just to become dust in the wind and to pass into nothing. So yes I believe there's so much more than this life has to offer us.
In a world full of disease, hunger, war, if this is the best that it'll ever be then how can anyone ever mount up a bit of hope. If it's naive of me to believe in an afterlife with my creator, surrounded by people who have gone before me that I've loved in my life, then I'm making a choice to continue to be naive. I simply can't live in this life knowing that those beautiful innocent eyes that look up at me with their unknowing questions won't be with me in eternity.
Even the best of this world isn't enough to convince me that there isn't so much more after we pass from this world and I hope that my kids or anyone else reading this blog will pray for some faith to believe in that.
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