Comments on: Lo-Fi Faith Reflection Meme: Natalie’s faith http://nataliejost.com/237 Designer Mom Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:28:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Natalie http://nataliejost.com/237/comment-page-1#comment-454 Natalie Wed, 17 May 2006 22:29:07 +0000 http://www2.standardsforlife.com/?p=136#comment-454 <p><strong>Jacob</strong> thank you for that affirmation. Although I have a reasonable amount of confidence I think mothers particularly need reassuring when it comes to training their children. It’s a tough and often thankless job, especially in the area of faith where so many >in the World< see it as brainwashing poor defenseless children. ;)</p> Jacob thank you for that affirmation. Although I have a reasonable amount of confidence I think mothers particularly need reassuring when it comes to training their children. It’s a tough and often thankless job, especially in the area of faith where so many >in the World< see it as brainwashing poor defenseless children. ;)

]]> By: Jacob Morse http://nataliejost.com/237/comment-page-1#comment-453 Jacob Morse Wed, 17 May 2006 22:22:47 +0000 http://www2.standardsforlife.com/?p=136#comment-453 <p>Hi Natalie. This is my first time to visit your blog. I really appreciate the things you have to say, and I wholeheartedly agree with your latest comment. After having seen a number of “Preachers’ Kids” leave the church, I realized the fine line that exists between “training your child in the way they should go” and shoving them down that path with their arm twisted. If a child isn’t reared to love God for him/herself, they are in trouble…</p> <p>Keep up the good work in writing, your personal walk and certainly in raising your daughter to do what’s right.</p> <p>God bless.</p> Hi Natalie. This is my first time to visit your blog. I really appreciate the things you have to say, and I wholeheartedly agree with your latest comment. After having seen a number of “Preachers’ Kids” leave the church, I realized the fine line that exists between “training your child in the way they should go” and shoving them down that path with their arm twisted. If a child isn’t reared to love God for him/herself, they are in trouble…

Keep up the good work in writing, your personal walk and certainly in raising your daughter to do what’s right.

God bless.

]]> By: Natalie http://nataliejost.com/237/comment-page-1#comment-452 Natalie Sat, 13 May 2006 23:14:18 +0000 http://www2.standardsforlife.com/?p=136#comment-452 <p>That’s a great question. In my opinion moderation and consistency are the most important things. You can teach children not to drink alcohol and some will become drunks. The important thing is to teach them without pounding it into them. We try to teach my daughter who Jesus is and how He makes our life wonderful. She sees it in us, and she sees where we fail too. I know someday she’ll have to come to Christ on her own and she’ll probably have to make some of the same mistakes I did. My job is to show her the right way and let her run with it. </p> <p>As for my parents, I don’t think their beliefs would have made a difference ultimately because my heart longed for my Creator for as long as I can remember, even before they adopted me. I just saw the way they lived, the superficiality, the divorce, that was the witness to me, not their beliefs or what they told me. They taught me by how they lived. I want to do the same for my daughter, but by living according to God’s will to show her how awesome life is when you do.</p> That’s a great question. In my opinion moderation and consistency are the most important things. You can teach children not to drink alcohol and some will become drunks. The important thing is to teach them without pounding it into them. We try to teach my daughter who Jesus is and how He makes our life wonderful. She sees it in us, and she sees where we fail too. I know someday she’ll have to come to Christ on her own and she’ll probably have to make some of the same mistakes I did. My job is to show her the right way and let her run with it.

As for my parents, I don’t think their beliefs would have made a difference ultimately because my heart longed for my Creator for as long as I can remember, even before they adopted me. I just saw the way they lived, the superficiality, the divorce, that was the witness to me, not their beliefs or what they told me. They taught me by how they lived. I want to do the same for my daughter, but by living according to God’s will to show her how awesome life is when you do.

]]> By: Michael Ono http://nataliejost.com/237/comment-page-1#comment-451 Michael Ono Sat, 13 May 2006 23:05:20 +0000 http://www2.standardsforlife.com/?p=136#comment-451 <p>Hello Natalie. What are your views on parents who force religion onto their kids? Children sometimes rebel against their parents and choose be atheist. So couldn’t it be argued that kids who have overbearing atheistic parents are more inclined to become religious? What is a person to do?</p> <p>Thanks!</p> Hello Natalie. What are your views on parents who force religion onto their kids? Children sometimes rebel against their parents and choose be atheist. So couldn’t it be argued that kids who have overbearing atheistic parents are more inclined to become religious? What is a person to do?

Thanks!

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