Your Word Is Truth

I just read a blog post by a mom who decided to get rid of ALL of her childrens' toys. She loved the results...less mess, less fighting, more creativity, more appreciation for experiences, more contentment. Or so it appeared. On one hand, I would LOVE to do that. I would love to get rid of the constant messes. I would love to encourage more creative play and see my children get along better and be more content. I might even be less frustrated and more content. Right?  I'm not convinced that this is the way to go about developing true contentment. From the heart contentment. It seems to me that this would merely serve to hide the real gaping problem of ingratitude under a Band-Aid. First, if my children aren't believers, they will never experience true contentment, no matter how it may appear on the outside. It might last a little while...but their human, sinful hearts will always want something ELSE that they don't already have, whether it's more or less. We&#

"Experience is the best teacher" is an old saying. We may not hear or see it spoken so much anymore, but our society lives by it. It's the very shaky foundation of the our culture, and really, the world's shifting "morality". It's a very ambiguous statement. For one thing, everyone has different experiences; so if experience is our teacher, everyone will be learning different "lessons". Many people will also perceive the same experience in different ways and glean entirely different perspectives from it. This is an amazingly chaotic way to "learn" life lessons. Compare it to a classroom. What would anyone learn about reality if everyone was told something different? No one would really know anything, yet everyone would consider themselves an expert...because no one else knows what they "know." Secondly, I would like to ask, experience is the best teacher of what? Most of us will take any given experience and, if not guid