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Put your family first 31 May 2006

'THERE ARE THOSE WHO CURSE THEIR FATHERS AND DO NOT BLESS THEIR
MOTHERS.' PROVERBS 30:11

Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the world-renowned heart transplant surgeon,
tells of leaving Minneapolis to return to his wife and children in Cape
Town after being gone for months. 'I was unprepared for her greeting.
'Why did you come back?' There was no longer a smile in her eyes. Oh
God, I thought, I've made the most horrible mistake of my life. 'Don't
look so surprised' she said. 'We gave up on you.' I responded, 'It was
only a little delay. I wrote you about it.' 'No, you wrote once to say
you weren't coming home.' He answered, 'But we were building aortic
valves to save lives.' 'No, you were building a family. That is, until
you dumped it into my lap' she said bitterly. 'We have ceased to exist
for you.' I wanted to say I'd come home because I love my children and I
loved her. I wanted to because I felt it, but what could I say now that
would not sound meaningless.' Dr. James Dobson writes, 'A sixth grade
teacher in an upper-middle-class neighbourhood was shocked to see the
results of a creative writing task about their family, assigned to her
students. A few of their actual sentences read: I wish my mother didn't
have a boyfriend...I wish I could get straight 'A's' so my father would
love me...I wish I'd one mom and one dad so that kids wouldn't make fun
of me. I have three moms and three dads and they botch up my life.'
Parent, wise up. Put your family first or you'll live to regret it!