This is doing the rounds on Facebook but it’s too good not to share. Not one word of it is mine but I don’t know it’s original source. It’s a good word picture to share with your children.
Girls are like apples…the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don’t want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren’t as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who’s brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree…
Isn’t that encouraging? It made my day to read it. 😉
Now we’re going to talk about what it means to be an apple on the top of the tree. I’m going to list some qualities that I think are important:
- Must honour both God and her Christian brothers in what she wears and how she acts
- Respects her mother and father
- Doesn’t put others down by her words, but builds them up so that they can join her at the top of the tree
- Is patient when things don’t go her way (working on this…)
- Understands that her purity is not a thing to give away freely, but a priceless gift addressed only to her future husband
- Understands the difference between vanity and looking pretty.
- Love the Lord her God with all her mind, heart, soul, and strength, and will not let anything get between them.
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
I’m praying that this generation of girls can make a difference and show people that we know what’s important: loving God, and living a life energized by that love.
Wow, I love this! So true… if only more ‘apples’ would be content to remain at the top of the tree 😉
I also love your list of qualities… very important 🙂
Yes, so true!
We are just back from a wedding over the weekend (of my nephew) where both he and his bride were third gen christians on one side and second on the other side of the family….wow, is all I can say! The wedding was absolutely amazing and inspiring! It inspired me to continue to sow into Rebekah’s life and raise her in the fear of God….we were christians when we were married but first gen ones, so I could defnitely see the big difference between theirs and our weddings!
Bless you dear sister……that encourages me with my Ra…….it is a battle but God is the victor, I would rather she comes to that revelation by the creator (God) not the enforcers (us :-)). How come in the midst of enforcing we seem to loose relationship??? I love how I see you relate with your daughter, real friends, pray for me dear friend I seem to have an easy path with the lads, but not so easy with the lasses……
Hiya Cathy,
I agree. I think that our children need to have a personal revelation of this truth… else it is just second hand knowledge, which is not necessarily the knowledge that saves.
I’ll be praying for you and with you Cathy. Some people really do relate better with one gender of their children than the other. Naturally, as you know, this doesn’t let us off the hook rather challenges us to learn more about interacting and relating with the ones where it doesn’t seem to come a naturally.
Yes, there is balance between that enforcing role and relationship and I think that the only time (in my experience, for what that is worth) that the enforcing is accepted and beneficial is when the relationship is in place. Once the children start to get older and think/reason for themselves it’s important that we focus on relationship- else it is just rules- and many young people don’t respond well to rules only. They want relationship. They want to connect with us. They want us to engage their hearts and their minds, even if they seem to struggle against it sometimes. We need to be strong and firm and just keep going.
praying…