Debra is one of the first bloggers I came across and we immediately connected. She’s a photographer from Houston – crazy talented. Loves her family. Loves Jesus. And I love her. I always feel like my soul has sipped a cup of warm tea when I visit her blog…
So, back to those fantabulous questions y’all asked:
Debra Parker: what is the one dream that you would lay all others down for?
Debra, at first glance, this struck me as a VERY complicated question. I had to think on it for a minute before I had the answer – but the answer is so clear and simple: I’d be willing to do just about anything so that my children would have a better future and a more healthy life than me. Not that my life has been unbearable, but I think we all want the next generation to experience a life that is better than our own. I know I do. And I’d be willing to sacrifice much for the sake of my descendants’ future…
So, here’s a follow-up question: How do you think we can make that dream a reality?
Treat everyone we meet with respect, and kindness. Hopefully that will help teach them how good it feels to do the same, and they will pass it on.
Treat our planet with that same respect, recycle, reduce waste, use products that don’t add to pollution, etc.
Seek out people from cultures very different from our own, different religions and nationalities. Muslims need to interact with Christians, gay people with Christ Followers. As we interact we learn how much we have in common. We come closer to developing the trust in each other that is essential to resolving our difference through peace and not violent conflict.
Once we work pass the barriers that separate us, we learn how to work together. Then any problem can be solved.
oh the beauty of this question, the answer and the follow up question.
I too have to let it simmer.
For my kids to have a better, healthier life than I did…it will be by no strength of my own but on the other hand will be the heaviest weight i will carry, i am sure.
Oh, my someday stegalls…I’ve never met you, but I love you and pray for you every single day. Come soon. Love, yo momma c
i love that you pray for your yet-to-meet children. it made me think of the fact that my mom prayed for our yet-to-meet spouses and friends that would come into our lives since the day we were born… that they would be making good choices and be good to us, and us to them. never too soon to start.
oh sara…I learned this from my mom, aka joj. she is one fantastical mom – i hope to be a fraction of what she has been to me.
I love that your mom prayed for your spouses! I’m going to have to add that to the list
Now, we don’t know when we’ll get to see those little stegall toes an their not-so-little stegall noses…but that day will be one of rejoicing fo shizzle!