Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Father and children connection 2

Do you believe in the law of seed time and harvest time? The law states that your actions are seeds that will bring back an harvest in your life in multiple fold beyond the seed you have sown. In natural issues, if you plant a bean seed; when it matures, it will produce far more than the single seedling you planted.

Whatever you sow is what you will reap; it clearly shows that there is nothing you do that you will not get a harvest for. A friend once said to me, you can do a thing and it may be hidden only for a while; however, the harvest of that action is sure. This is the guiding principle that I hold in life that guides my actions; I have seen in the little time that I have spent alive that there is always a boomerang effect of every action that a person indulge in.

I have also discovered that there is a link between a father and his children; the action of a father vibrates not only on him but on his lineage. You can prove me wrong temporary, but in the long run, you will discover that I am right. How do one explain this; I really don’t know without sounding like a religious psycho to some of those who will be opportune to read this column. However, I real life instance, we accept that there is what is called hereditary diseases. A particular disease that is common in a particular family; some of this disease includes; heart problems, renal failure, psychosis, etc may be included amongst the few. When a patient comes up with this problems, one of the question you will hear the medical practitioner ask is, is it an hereditary disease? The reason is because they want to do more through check up on that patient.

I come from the Yoruba culture that believe that you should let your child get married into any family lineage that have hereditary diseases such as madness and leprosy. They believe that such traits will be passed to their on line, so people who have such are often stigmatized even in the present age of modern medical care for hereditary diseases. The emphasis of this column is parenting; I believe that parenting starts with two people who are married living a responsible lifestyle. One truth that is that the children reap the harvest of their fathers’ deeds and misdeeds.

Why is my emphasis on the fathers; I believe that once the man of the house can get things right, it’ll naturally have a spiral effect on his children. The man is the spiritual head of the family; the one placed to be in charge to govern the home. Life flows from him to every member of his family more than from the wife to the rest of the family. His actions have a spiral effect on the family more than that of his wife; so he needs to be properly guided on the consequences of his actions and inactions both in his own life and in the life of his family.

Fathers that will be privilege to read this column, please live responsibly in reverence to God (if you believe that God exist) and respect for your fellow human being knowing fully well that he will not only reap what he sows alone but that posterity after him will either bless or curse him from his action.

A Yoruba adage says, ‘Kaka ki omo olore ji si ko to, mo na mo na a si ye iyanu.’ It means rather than for the child of a good man to fall into a pit in life, light will shine forth on his path to give him direction. I have enjoyed good will of people in many areas of my life, not because I deserve them, but I discover that certain influences take charge that makes it happen.

I will like to share with you the story of a young lad who enjoyed an unprecedented favor wherever he finds himself. Tolu, discovered early in life that people just naturally favor him; where doors are locked against others, they just seems to spring open for him. Right from his university days, his tuition fees was miraculously taken care off; just days before the final date of paying, someone will just put enough money in his hand that would be sufficient to clear the bill. After his university degree; he got what you will call a miracle job, not because he was the most brilliant but favor just seems to knock at his doors. He has heard people say; they don’t know why they just like him and do for him the things they. That was a mystery to him until he heard the story of his late dad.

The story of his dad was that of man that can give out what we call our last card (the last penny on him) to solve another persons problem. He wasn’t a rich man, but was very generous; he heard that his dad had helped paid school fees of students that would have been turned out because they couldn’t and today most ot them have become better people to the society. He would hear people call him by the name of his dad, and pray for him telling him how his dad had help them out of one challenge or the other when he was alife. He conclusion is that something about his dad’s good deed must have brought about the kind of luck he now enjoys.

Olufemi Fasanya
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