More on Foundations

Here is another observation that I have made about foundations that helps make the point about how important they are.

Perhaps you have noticed, as I have, that whatever note is played at the start of any relationship is very much the same note that is played throughout that relationship.

I have noticed that however my relationship starts with someone is generally how my relationship with that person continues. Years later, we still feel the same feelings and respond to each other as we did during the foundational period of our relationship.

This is not to say that relationships cannot change and grow, because they can and do. With the help and leading and guidance of God in relationships, I have seen them and do see them change. However, that original flavor is reluctant to let go. It takes time and work.

This just helps to make the point that a foundation, in whatever setting or application we find one, is very important. And, me being me, I will always focus on how the lesson applies to kids. So, the most important thing to learn and apply from this lesson, is this--"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." In other words, whatever foundation you lay in a child's life is going to last in that child as they grow up and become an adult.

I know that I am comparing two different things here, relationships and raising children, but I am just pointing out the power of foundations. We can see it in many areas of life, and so we must apply it in every area that we can.