Gaining a Heart of Wisdom

So now you have to be thinking, "Whhhyyyy am I reading this blog when they have pictures of tombstones?"  Yeah, it's probably pretty weird.  What's even more weird, is the fact that we found this tombstone on one of our dates several years ago.  Now you're probably wondering why we go to cemeteries on our dates.  Well with nine children, we have to find cheap dates and cemeteries are alot cheaper to visit when your alive rather than, you know...........later....... when you're not.

Anyway, we heard a pastor say one time you should visit a cemetery, it really puts things into perspective and it truly does.  You begin to realize that your days are truly numbered.  You see stones for newborn babies, young children, brothers, sisters, young mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles.  There are dear friends,  poor people, wealthy people, slaves, flags on the graves of soldiers who were known and those who were unknown.  You see that death is no respecter of age.

This tombstone caught our attention particularly because it was for six children.  I don't know anything more about the family than what the inscription says:

Our Children

Julia

Mary

Bennie

Willie

Maggie

Junie  

 

and around this big stone were six little stones with their little initials on them.  When you see something like this you kind of just stand there, in awe, wondering what in the world happened and how the parents continued to live life after that. 

 

Suffer the little children to come unto me....

 

A young mother in our community lost her two children in a fire this week, pray for her.  If you're reading this blog and you haven't hugged your kids or told your husband, wife or teenager that you love and appreciate them today, stop reading this and go do it, before it's too late. 

 

For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; 

We finish our years like a sigh. 

The days of our lives are seventy years; 

And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, 

Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;
For it is soon cut off and we fly away. Who knows the power of Your anger? 

For as the fear of You, so is your wrath. 

So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.  Psalm 90:10-12