Monday, January 2, 2012

a mind, and to use it


spoiled and spoiling


parent to child,
amazing in the time and care invested each moment
in support of every step forward,
in every climb upward,
and what impresses me even more
is how the parent, when it’s time,
can let go of control,
though never of fear and hope,
and the child can skin a knee, or not,
and wend his or her way into independence,

as a species, I fear when we don’t grow up that way,
when we don’t appreciate free choice, and its consequences,
and we then act as if we are but entitled children
with God expected to pick up all our messes,

rather, I think we often skin our knees
and we are best as God’s children when we learn
and grow up enough to be worth the love
that brought us this far
and that hopes that we are not so spoiled
as to spoil our own future,
God gave us free will and also a mind:
should we not use it?

by Henry H. Walker
December 31, ’11

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