A PARENT’S LOVE
Written by Luz Leigh – 13 February 2008
One of the
things I do once a week is laundry for one of
non-married sons. I have been asked more than
once by friends who know of my habit, “Why do
you spoil him?” …..”When are you going to make
him grow up?”…..”Don’t you have enough to do
without laundering his clothes?”
Well, first
off, to be real frank and not very tactful, it
is no one’s business but MINE, what I do for
my children. There is no way I can outdo
giving to them. The three of them are always
here when I need something.
The one for
whom I do laundry sees to it that my yard is
taken care of, even to the point of mowing it
himself at times. I never have to worry about
that task, although for years mowing and weed
eating was something I looked forward to
during the growing season. That is not the
only thing he does, but he and I sort of have
an informal agreement. Trade yard work for
laundry. Besides, I get to go to his home to
do the laundry where, in good weather, I can
sit on the front porch and reminisce. You see,
he lives on the home place….where I was born
and lived for the first thirty-five years of
my life. In the summer I use his electricity
to power the air conditioning; in the winter I
use it for the central heat while doing my
“maid” work. When he does my yard, he provides
the lawn mower, gas for mower and uses his
weed eater. Are you beginning to see that old
Momma is actually getting the better part of
the deal?
In Matthew,
Jesus speaks of how we mortals who are evil
give good gifts to our children. He further,
through the Apostle Paul when writing to the
Ephesians, admonished parents to bring our
children up in the training and instruction of
the Lord. If Jesus cared enough to be
concerned about the children, can a parent do
less? Yeah, I know…..you are thinking, “But
these are GROWN children.” True, but Jesus
does not say when, if ever, we parents are
released from our duty to show His love
through our actions toward our children. So,
when I launder my child’s clothes, I do it out
of love for him….and he knows it.
Aren’t you
glad that our heavenly Father does not stop
His love toward us just because we have become
“grown”?
