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OBSERVATION---I see very insecure children everywhere.

After a book on this ‘new wave’ came out I began closely observing parents and children.  With the size of our church children were not hard to find.

I see a different young child than I saw when my children were young. 

I see mother’s riding this ‘new wave’ of child rearing that gives them license to be self-absorbed and selfish with their time for their child.  I see mother’s not being "El Shaddai" to their infants and young children.

I am not going to labor to make my observations credible to you.  Rather, I am going to leave you right here with some questions and a concluding remark.

1. How was your God -El Shaddai to you when you first accepted Him as Your Saviour?  How did He nurture you at His breast with His pure  Formula of milk for your growth and security in His love?

2. Are you secure in the LORD today because He always met you in your Need right where you were at---at whatever time of day that you needed Him?

3. Oftentimes I wake up in the middle of the night insecure and needing my Abba Father to comfort me and assure me as His child.  Especially when in trials, I need to have Him wrap His Almighty Wings around me and lay my head on His breast...and feed me from His Shad until I am satisfied and secure once more.  Because He has never failed to do so on MY time table I can stand in Him secure---even as we watch our son slip in to the arms of Jesus Heavenbound.  Isn’t this what we want for our children---to be secure in our love, trusting us with their well-being and nourishment for all aspects of their growth?

My friend gave me an illustration that prompted me to write this short essay that I am writing with prayer...prayer that my observations will cause some mothers to un-schedule their small children.  My friend said that a young mom took her 3 week old baby to the nursery and laid it in a crib---and then taped a note to the crib.  The note read, "This is my baby’s rest time and I do not want anyone to change the schedule by picking it up out of this crib," 

That baby cried for two hours because the nursery workers were in to this

‘new wave’ of child rearing.  In a new place (they were visitors), without mom or dad there, that infant cried and was left to be insecure for two hours.

Some may say that I have only raised two children.  Well, my friend in Wisconsin raised a family of TWELVE and they all are secure, productive, Christian adults.  How did she manage it?  She definitely did not raise them in what I have sorrowfully labeled "a baby boot-camp". She was El Shaddai to them all...giving up her time and her desires to obey her God in the greatest of ‘ministry’ work....training up our children in the way they should go....knowing that before she and her husband could train them each of the twelve had to learn to be secure in their parents love and care---they each had to learn to trust their guidance knowing they had always been there to meet their every need without letting them ‘cry in fear of being in strange places.’ 

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