Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.
Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.
When Christmas doesn't fit your expectations of what the perfect holiday should be, think about how Joseph and Mary probably didn't think that manger was the perfect place for their child to be born. but look at what a perfect Christmas that turned out to be.
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.
To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It was then that I became addicted to reading. A great writer can attach themselves to your mind and heart, and you feel you understand the world better. As long as you have the capacity to read, you needn't be alone any more. I remember thinking as a child, "If I could give one person the comfort I keep getting from books, then I want to write. "
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.
Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.
I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.
I cannot teach a child I do not know
There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother. " God says it was "the blood of your brother. " The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.
If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.