Happy New Year.
With the arrival of a new year, we are given the opportunity to reflect on the year that has passed, and approach the blank canvas of 2019 with hope.
I came across a poignant passage in the book, A Course In Miracles, which incited in me a strong sense of direction in my role as a mother. I felt that sharing it with you could provide the same inspiration it provided me:
‘Everyone teaches, and teaches all the time. This is a responsibility you inevitably assume the moment you accept any premise at all, and no one can organize his life without some thought system. Once you have developed a thought system of any kind, you live by it and teach it. Your capacity for allegiance to a thought system may be misplaced, but it is still a form of faith and can be redirected.’ [1]
In the context of being the carers of young children, it is a reminder that we are, at all times, teaching. And what we are teaching is essentially our own thought system.
It reminded me to be mindful of what it is that I have personally adopted as my own thought system, and what it is that I am inevitably, teaching my daughters. Is my thought system one that I would be proud of passing to the next generation? Is my thought system going to raise them up, or tear them down?
Navigating the role of being a parent can be a Sisyphean task. And distilling what is of essential importance to teach children is an art form that many of us are still in the process of deciphering.
The book, A Course In Miracles, again comes to our aid with the simple yet profound statement:
‘Teach only love, for that is what you are.’[2]
There it is. Let's enter this new year with a genuine commitment to teach our children love, for they are the arrows we send to a time we do not know.
References:
[1] A Course In Miracles – Combined Volume (Third Edition) 2007, published by the Foundation for Inner Peace p 91
[2] Ibid p 94
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