Lessons for Success

A group of researchers years ago polled a hundred or so CEOs asking what qualities or pursuits might better a child's chance for success. A common trend in their answers was honesty. Honesty is learned easier when taught in a loving way. Honesty comes naturally in a loving environment.

Isn't everything better with love? Children first experience the love of God through their experience of their parents’ love, and that parents in loving their children are loving God, since we love God by loving one another. Love simply has to be the greatest gift any parent can share.

“Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth.” —
1 John 3:18

and from First Peter -

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

1 Peter 3: 8-13

A kind word, a gentle act, a modest demeanor, a loving smile, are as so many seeds that we can scatter every moment of our lives, and which will always spring up and bear fruit.

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