STRENGTH OR WEAKNESS?

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If you cry for everything that happens to you, you are weak.
And if you are afraid to be ever found crying, you are also weak.

If you cannot stand those who weep,
Or cannot bear to be seen with weak people,
Or cannot weep with them
You may not be weak, but neither are you strong;

You are simply hard.

Weakness easily bends into any shape, and easily breaks into any number of pieces
Hardness is difficult to break, but some kinds of pressure make it suddenly shatter, because it cannot bend.
Because hardness is difficult to break, it is a type of strength
But because it cannot bend, it is a type of weakness

True strength bends in practice but it will never break in principle

Men usually think they are stronger than women
That is not mostly true

They are are mostly harder, not stronger
Women are mostly stronger than men
This is why they easily take care of babies

Strength is defined by its ability to bear the weakness of the weak.

Jesus, except when He took upon Himself, our weakness; was never weak
He was the strongest of all men, and He wept.

Tears shed for self are usually of weakness
Tears shed for others are usually of strength

Jesus loved little children
There is an element of childlikeness in true strength.

Childlikeness...hmm

Fathers, beware: hardness has kills the boy in the man, and the girl in the woman.
Mothers, beware: weakness kills the man in the boy, and the woman in the girl.

Hardness says "Kill the boy, and let the man be born."

The man won't be born, the boy will simply be hardened. And we have many hardened boys today who cannot change diapers, hold the house together for one day, but can easily neglect their children, and beat up their wives.

And many hardened girls who cannot respect their husbands for one second, who tell their daughters "your happiness is all that matters, you don't need a man for anything. All men are cheaters".

That's hardness talking, not strength. Life has hardened them ...besides even if men wanted to, they could not be cheaters, simply because there is no such word. Those who cheat are cheats.

And weakness cries "Leave the boy, leave the boy, even if he doesn't want to be a man. Please leave him!"

If you leave him, he will be an overgrown boy, who can open his mouth for food and shout for soccer, but cannot raise his daughter or defend his wife; and many overgrown girls cannot lift a finger or make a decision about life without their husband, but have an MSc in reality tv and a PhD in telemundo.

But strength says "Discipline the boy, he will not die. Train the girl, and she will live to be the woman she would have been proud of"

The old school way of raising children is hard; because inflicting punishment is not discipline. It will threaten and punish the child for asking a question about sex!

The new school way of raising children is weak; because withholding treats is not discipline. It waits for the child to determine if (s)he wants to be a boy or a girl!

But the good school raises children to be strong, strong in God, strong in their hearts, and strong for their families and their societies.

Because when a nation is strong, you see it in their families.
And when the family is strong, you see it in their children.

So fathers, mothers; existing, impending, or intending
Over to us..we need real men and women

And it is strength that makes the girl a woman; and the man, a boy.

So be strong for the children, especially yours

For the child is the father of the man
And children, the future of the clan

Culled from a friend on Whatsapp