Monday 5 September, 2005                                       subscribe | unsubscribe | discuss | archive

 

Shut the toothpaste lid

by Bruce Wadd   

 

Today I want to open a can of worms…and ‘shut the toothpaste lid’ for many of you.

 

Recently my wife and I had dinner with great friends of ours, and like many evenings the conversation wandered through many sectors of life – finances, ambition, children, home, projects, spirituality, sex, love, communication, etc. Finally it arrived at parenting. 

 

Our female guest talked about the influence of her parents in her life.  She stated that even now in her forties, she is unable to leave the bathroom after cleaning her teeth without closing the lid on the toothpaste tube.  Innocuous, you might say, yet true just the same!!

 

In life most are controlled to varying degrees by the conditioning of parents in their infant years, impacting relationships, career, finances and much more. 

 

Here’s the good news! You don’t need to be controlled any longer by negative conditioning. You are now a child of God.  He is the parent that can rebuild and direct your life.  Here is one of his many instructions

 

“May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvellous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long,
how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is;…”  Ephesians 3:17,18

 

Today, let your Father in heaven do the talking!

 

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