Issue 836 – Farm Life – August 25, 2022
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Since we took two of our granddaughters to see
Anne of Green Gables, A Summer Concert recently, they have been fascinated with the era and the idea of farm life. They and their neighbourhood friends have been playing farm and asking Kathy plenty of questions about life in the “olden days.”
Kathy has been spending time with them answering their questions, and they have been baking together, berry picking, making jam and generally enjoying “farm life” here in the city.
Teaching children through play and learning through interaction across the generations is a natural process. You might call them apprenticeship by life or, be more current, mentoring.
It is also an integral part of God’s plan and very biblical.
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. Titus 2:2-10
It is, sadly, a pattern that has been set aside in modern western life. Even in the church, there is a tendency to segregate by age. Yes, children need to be with children, seniors with seniors, etc., but the generations need to mingle.
All of us have something we can pass on to the younger generations. Equally, all of us have something we can learn from those more advanced in years.
Sometimes it can seem scary to cross generational lines. For many seniors, those teens can seem weird and scary. The teens can think the seniors are out of touch with the world. Both have an element of truth, but we have much more in common than both groups realize.
Mentoring can take many forms. It can be a formal process with set times and a teaching plan. Or it can be as simple as including someone from another generation (or culture) in your daily life. You learn together through life.
In whatever structure we are called to build into the lives of others and to be learning ourselves.
Whose life are you building into? Who is building into your life?
Hallelu Yah (Praise God)
Be blessed.
Kevin.
Gleanings From The Word.
Experience an extraordinary God in ordinary life.
Soli Deo Gloria (for the glory of God alone.)
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