Good morning…
I chuckled at my fourteen year old’s response to my morning question. “So what do you want for breakfast today?”
As if it were printed plainly on a cardboard box, he said: “I’ll have some ‘daddy cereal.'” My growing son is a foot and a half taller than me, with a shoe size nearly surpassing his father’s, and his deep voice said, “Daddy cereal?”
I knew exactly what he meant. Half corn flakes. Half bran flakes. A handful of granola. With raisins sprinkled on top before pouring on the milk. This is the concoction my husband has eaten for breakfast most every day of his life for as long as I can remember. “Daddy cereal” means “I’ll have what he’s having.”
We each have a huge responsibility to the watching eyes around us. Our habits impact others, quietly, unconsciously. In the physical and the intellectual, the spiritual and the relational realms of life, our habits become our kids’ habits until their brains can choose their own. During their growing up years, they “have what we are having” day in and day out.
What “daddy cereal” are we serving up for our family and friends today?
And his mother stored all these things in her heart. Jesus grew in wisdom (intellectual) and in stature (physical) and in favor with God and all the people (spiritual and relational), Luke 2:51b-52 (NLT).
May the same be said of us as we and our loved ones mature into our true, God-designed selves,
Sue
