Sep. 12, 2006 - Love Between Brothers and Sisters
When I was about thirteen years old, my parents had me and my siblings memorize this poem by Isaac Watts. (You know, my brothers, sisters and I can still recite it from memory some fifteen years later!)
It is a great poem to have your children recite in front of each other after a quarrel!
Love Between Brothers and Sisters
(by Isaac Watts)
Whatever brawls disturb the street,
There should be peace at home;
Where sisters dwell, and brothers meet, Quarrels should never come. Birds in their little nests agree;
And 'tis a shameful sight,
When children of one family
Fall out, and chide, and fight. Hard names at first, and threat'ning words,
That are but noisy breath,
May grow to clubs and naked swords,
To murder and to death. The devil tempts one mother's son To rage against another:
So wicked Cain was hurry'd on
'Till he had kill'd his brother. The wise will make their anger cool,
At least before 'tis night;
But in the bosom of a fool
It burns till morning-light. Pardon, O Lord, our childish rage
Our little brawls remove;
That, as we grow to riper age,
Our hearts may all be love.
What is your favorite Bible verse, poem or quote YOU memorized growing up?
Please share it with me!
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