Encouraged by God's Word

Archive for February, 2012

Hello Family,

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard some rude comment about my bald head from one of my three children. I love them but they are crazy and just because I’m a little thin on the top does not mean they need to make insulting statements all the time.

I think it all started some years ago when my now 19 year old daughter was having a sleep over for her birthday. All of the girls were in the basement yelling and screaming and making a lot of noise like little girls do and as I went downstairs with more snacks, someone made a comment about a clown. In excitement my daughter looked at me and asked if I was getting a clown for the party. I told her no and that’s when it got down right disrespectful.

I remember it like it was yesterday. One of my daughter’s friends looked at me and said, “Mr. Rodney, you can be the clown.” And then she started to chant, “Bal-dy the Clown, Bal-dy the Clown, Bal-dy the Clown,…” and before you knew it there was a chorus of these annoying little girls chiming in and calling me outside of my name.

I walked upstairs and I contemplated calling their parents and telling them to come get their daughters from my front yard (because that is where I was about to put them) but I decided to let it go and be the bigger man and let the party continue as planned.

For those who know me know that I wasn’t really insulted and I actually thought it was funny. They were good kids and just having some fun at my expense.

Now I may not have considered them to be disrespectful but there are a lot of kids who are. They don’t have an ounce of respect for their elders or anyone else for that matter.

As a kid my friends and I did some things that I know my parents would not approve of but we were respectful when we were around our elders. We changed our behavior, we watched what we said and we acting like we had some common sense when we were in the presence of an adult. A lot of kids these days aren’t like that. They will talk back to AND cuss out an adult in a heartbeat.

The bible makes it very clear why and how youth should respect their elders. First of all it is right and it leads to long life. They are to set an example and stand up and honor them. Also respecting elders could save their lives. I truly believe our society is in a mess partly because of the way youth treat their elders. They have lost all sense of what is right and wrong.

Now for me personally, I had to share this scripture with my 19 year old daughter a couple of days ago when she made a disparaging remark about my bald head and when she read it, she was amazed. I told her to be careful of her remarks because they could get her in some serious trouble.

2 Kings 2:23-24 says Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

Now that is what you call a punishment. My daughter will think twice before she disses my dome anytime soon.

Be Encouraged and Have a Wonderful Weekend!

P.S. Please share with this with your Facebook friends or anyone who just needs a good laugh.