A few years ago a friend of mine was talking about her older sister and all the wrong or bad things she was doing, or had done. My friend couldn’t believe it and made the comment that how could they be so different from each other, when they had the same parents. I told her, “But you didn’t have the same parents.” She wanted to know what I meant, “of course we did,” she said. She was the baby of the family. Her sister was the oldest, her brother was next and then herself, the youngest.
It had taken me a good number of years to see it myself. At the time her and I were talking about it, my youngest was in his teens and quite different from his sister and I realized how much I had changed the six and a half years between them. I wasn’t the same mother to my son as I was to my daughter. The mistakes I made were different, because I recognized that what didn’t work for one would probably not work for the other.
Not only do we grow older, hopefully we grow wiser, but I do regret not being the best mother I should have been.
That in itself is an old saying but did you know it came from the bible? I always thought it meant that people cannot change who they are from bad to good, but that verse says otherwise. Or not? Is it confusing? What do you think?
Jeremiah 13:23 King James Version
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
