“The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,”

Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing

We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;

Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to

No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.

Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.

I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories

We put him in touch with his inner reality.

From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.

The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break free from the trees And fall.

Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

It is more difficult to research women’s lives than it is men’s.

X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed.