Comments on: Honor Your Father and Your Mother http://www.northvalleyfriends.org/2006/10/26/honor-your-father-and-your-mother/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Cynthia Edwards http://www.northvalleyfriends.org/2006/10/26/honor-your-father-and-your-mother/#comment-8 Cynthia Edwards Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:37:51 +0000 http://www.northvalleyfriends.org/2006/10/26/honor-your-father-and-your-mother/#comment-8 Cynthia Edwards : The current subject of honoring one's parents is one which I have been wrestling with for a couple years. It comes as a time when a daughter is very angry with me and has cut off contact. Of course, this is devastating to me. The commandment to honor ones father and mother has been greatly on my mind. I think it is important to note that it doesn't say to Love them, rather to honor them. Honor can be an external attitude, if necessary. We honor firefighters who have died, even if we never knew them. What they did in going into dangerous conditions to make things safe is what we honor. I think that honor for ones parents can be the same thing. For the abusive parent, perhaps the best - and maybe the only - thing we can honor them for is that they gave you life. Period! In my lighter moments I somewhat jokingly say that 9 months of pregnancy and 24 hours of labor earn me honor and respect for the rest of my life. I hope that one day I may have a peaceful dialogue with my daughter. In the meantime I will attend with interest the discussion you are having on the subject. Cynthia Cynthia Edwards :

The current subject of honoring one’s parents is one which I have been wrestling with for a couple years. It comes as a time when a daughter is very angry with me and has cut off contact. Of course, this is devastating to me. The commandment to honor ones father and mother has been greatly on my mind. I think it is important to note that it doesn’t say to Love them, rather to honor them. Honor can be an external attitude, if necessary. We honor firefighters who have died, even if we never knew them. What they did in going into dangerous conditions to make things safe is what we honor. I think that honor for ones parents can be the same thing. For the abusive parent, perhaps the best - and maybe the only - thing we can honor them for is that they gave you life. Period! In my lighter moments I somewhat jokingly say that 9 months of pregnancy and 24 hours of labor earn me honor and respect for the rest of my life. I hope that one day I may have a peaceful dialogue with my daughter. In the meantime I will attend with interest the discussion you are having on the subject.
Cynthia

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