They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
– from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Inspiring, as usual. Even though I do not have children, this makes me appreciate my parents more. (Don’t know if that made sense, though.)
Kahlil Gibran is amazing. We have one of his books – actually, a collection…The Prophet and others. Thank you for sharing this.
That’s unbelievably beautiful.
Very beautiful. Nice blog BTW.
Very interesting post. Children really do have their own thoughts and are very much unique individuals.
wow very inspiring.
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There are some points in your post that make me reflect on life and rearing my two beautiful kids. Great post!
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Kahlil Gibran was always been an inspiring blog. Children are not from us though basically they came from one’s individual but in the real thing they/we are from GOD children of GOD.
Yes, God just made us a steward of this cute creatures. We are very much accountable to God if we did not let them grow as a responsible and God fearing people. So to those who don’t have children yet, parenting is not an easy job, one should practice what he preach.We are Gods steward of our children.
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The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
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I am a very protective mom, I thought of my children are all mine and nobody owns them but me until I read this thing sometime before and made me realize that I was just a steward of this precious soul and I should take care of them much.
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I had totally missed everything I had read because my mind was bored and thinking of something else at the same time. | 😛
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I thought of my children are all mine and nobody owns them but me until I read this thing sometime before and made me realize that I was just a steward of this precious soul. | 😛
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For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
What a brilliant post. You should do a series! :)I did a sort of blogging for dummies over on one of the craft forums and I thought it was too simple for them, but the amount of emails I got asking questions just like what you addressed was unbelievable. As young people today we have grown up with computers, but it’s easy to forget that even people just a few years older have not! Really good post! 🙂
Very beautiful poem.. So inspiring! I can feel your love on your child.. Pretty amazing!
for me as i discipline my kids always so they will not go to a wrong way of life,i tell them to be responsible and dependent to your self.thank you so much for sharing this to us.
It is a so brilliant post and I like it. In fact, the time is the biggest teach.