If only...

If only I could teach my children...No, if only I could SHOW my children to:

• Be peacemakers
• Turn the other cheek when struck on the right cheek
• Willingly give up their shirt also when they are sued for their coats
• Willingly carry the burden of one that uses them an extra mile
• Love their enemies
• Bless those that curse them
• Do good to those that hate them
• Pray for them that despitefully use them and persecute them
• Forgive others their trespasses
• Lay up their treasures in heaven
  
• Serve God rather than mammon
• Seek first the kingdom of God

"But that's not the American way".
No, but it is the way of the One we claim to follow.

Matthew 5-6