Saturday, October 19, 2013

Day 19

DISRESPECTING YOUR PARENTS

Scripture says to obey and respect one's parents. But sometimes this is hard.

I'm the type of person, that someone whats me to do something and I don't understand the WHY of their request, I simply won't do it. This was a huge struggle for me growing up because "Because I Said So" just didn't fly for me. I haaaaated it. I wanted my parents to see me as an equal person with thoughts and opinions, and not as a seemingly dumb child to be bossed around.
And even if I was given a WHY, if I didn't agree with the WHY, my instinct would be to fight it. Why should I be forced to do something I don't agree with? It's my life, isn't it? Up into my early years of college I had this attitude not only with my parents, but with other authority figures in my life.

I would definitely say I've gotten a lot better with authority figures over the past few years. I still question things a lot, but my attitude is much better - more just conversational questioning rather than argumentative.


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