Simple Things

     Oh, you have really hit my preachin’ button now!  I can understand why parents today want to know in advance what the sex of their child is going to be.  It sure makes things easier for decorating a nursery or buying clothes, but now some people want to actually have their unborn children manipulated into a specific sex and a specific set of characteristics. 

      Now think about this!  If all the children born in the next century are athletes and geniuses, who will those kids have to pick on?  If there are no more nerds or geeks born, and if everybody is going to be a perfect specimen of health, won’t this create a boring society?  If all the kids in your son’s or daughter’s highschool want to be football players and cheerleaders,  how will it be determined who gets to be on the team?  If they are all fantastic atheletes, then who’s going to sit on the sidelines?  The boys won’t be able to shove around the little nerdy guy and the girls won’t have anyone to snub in the hallways. 

      Wake up people!   We all need somebody who is fatter than us, or uglier than us, or dumber than us, or who can’t hit the broad side of the barn with a baseball. 

     If we start picking out what we want our kids to look like and what their abilities should be, what will there be to make life interesting?  Most of the fun in life is about the unknown.  If you knew your future mate would be perfect in every respect, then you wouldn’t have to spend any time dating or partying - just grab the first one that comes along because they’re all going to be just alike.  What kind of fun would that be?  If I know how the book is going to end, I’m not going to bother to read all the pages, so what did I get out of it?

      I have two lovely grandchildren (one of each) and I would not have changed any facet of their personalities, (well maybe I would have liked it if their tempers were a little less volatile).  But most of who they are is controlled by what we allow them to be, or by fate turning them in to whatever the  creator intended. 

      Would John Candy have been as good an actor if he had been skinny?

      Would Ray Charles have been as good a musician and singer if he was not blind?

      If your life had been perfect, what would you have become?  ( Please, one Paris Hilton is enough!)

      If God had wanted everybody to be perfect - he would have made them ALL left-handed.

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