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Originally Posted by mctone
RubyRae, I hope this is okay for me to say here (still new here, and learning the bountaries...) God allows things in our lives to shape us into the people He wants us to be. Perhaps your experiences were God's way of showing you how important it is to love your own kids. Sounds to me like you're a pretty awesome Mom! And remember this too, there are no such things as "perfect parents". Just look at the very first two - Adam and Eve - their son Cane killed his own brother! They weren't perfect parents, and neither are we, but we do our best. Sometimes we can bring the best of our parents into our own lives, and sometimes we have to make sure that the worst of our parents don't creep in
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It's fine that you said that and I appreciate you taking the time to say it.
I'm not so sure that God allowed it just so I would know how important it is to love my own kids though.That just seems like an awful cruel way to teach somebody something.Wouldn't the opposite,having very loving,caring parents to teach by example have been a much kinder thing to do?
I'm not so sure I am a believer in "everything happens for a reason".That would mean that God purposely made me suffer.It would also mean that he purposely made my mother suffer as a child,purposely made her mother and everyone else in her childhood abusive,and made her grandmother abusive to her mother,and so on and so on.
That seems more like punishment rather than a loving God.I don't consider myself religious,I am more spiritual,and although I do believe in God I don't accept that a child suffering is part of his plan.