Farsighted

Monday Devotion

Farsighted[HD1] 

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

1 John 2:15–17

“Parents of gifted children think ten, maybe twenty, years down the road. Parents like us think one hundred years ahead.”

Alan and Lindsey have a fifteen-year-old boy named Robby. The best way to describe Robby is that he’s slow. He was slow to crawl, slow to speak, slow to read, and slow to catch on to social situations. He has a hard time participating in conversations with his peers because language is so difficult for him that he’ll come in at awkward moments of the conversation—say, five minutes after a topic has already passed, he’ll bring it up again, out of the blue. His friends look at him like he’s weird.

“They just don’t understand,” Alan explains, “that Robby has been working really hard for those five minutes to think of something so that he can participate in the conversation.”