Ok you guys got me there! Yes, it was very hard to show respect or to show anything but a psychotic mind to my daughter at 14 who admits today she was a monster! Picked up by the cops, sneaking out of Gramma's at MN and leaving the darn door open, and what a meany to her younger sister let alone her mother! You bet, I had her at the Psych's office! Today she's a sweety and very close to me; we're great friends.
So now I have another 12 yr old girl who started with the "I know everything" defiant attitude, and I told her...I'm not going through this again sister! ha ha.
Well guess what? This child who I was foretold I would have and also told she would be special in some way, has been dramatically and abruptly changed during a revival here. Now she hugs me! Now she acts like a much older girl who has passed through this stage; she responds in kindness and is even nice to her little brother...very unusual! Now she has read half of the cute teenage bible I got her once that she was too bored to even look at before...and she has read all the gospels....more than I could get done in 2 weeks! Now she "hears" me! Very different!
Conclusion: Respect is a Virtue and Virtue ultimately comes from above; Remember it was virtue that Jesus felt go out of him when the woman with the issue of blood grabbed onto his garment? Virtue then is power...power of Life, and so then Respect must be also. Anyway, I am so happy, blessed today! love kim
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