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Being a Princess
11 x 14 Oils on Canvas
Figurative Child Portrait - Commissioned Painting SOLD
by Laurie Pace
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“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
It is obvious we now live in a fully established 'material' world with everything based on material things and promoting yourself. There are several generations slipped in here with "all about me"...."give it to me" and "gotta have it". There is also the "what's in for me" generation. Is it too late for you as parents to act?
Of course not, It is never too late for you to instill sensitivity toward other's needs and to teach empathy, something missing in our classrooms today. Children should be taught that curiosity is a foundation to learning and generosity provides to the needs of others from what you have.
As a parent, do you do demonstrate generosity in your life and in front of your children? Most of what they do they learn from you. Do you help out neighbors, family, friends and even some strangers? You may have to share with them how and why you did some of these things as they may not have been present to watch you.
If your children are younger, you will need to explain it from the view of every action has a reaction. When you do a good deed for someone, not only is the person touched and glad that you helped them, you also have a positive sense of being kind when helping someone.
My husband and I LOVE paying a food bill at the grocery for someone or even at a restaurant, paying it ahead and covering a lunch bill. I remember going to a Waffle house on Thanksgiving morning with our grandson who was about 8 years old. We had breakfast in an overcrowded restaurant and ended up at the bar. As we paid our bill, we left a $100 bill as a tip for our waitress. We left the restaurant before she received it and saw her from our car. That was worth the entire trip we made to spend Thanksgiving with family. She sat down and cried at the table she was cleaning off.
We never know what is happening in the lives of others. I fear these younger generations will not be wise to the sadness in someone's eyes, or the vacant lost look of losing someone you love. They have lost the ability to read emotional cues of others around them.
Do this together with your children. Go out for groceries and as you check out, tell the cashier to grab something off the next person's groceries ready to check out behind you. YOU PAY for that one item and tell them to pass it on to the person behind them... and you would be surprised how people suddenly want to join in the fun and surprise the person behind them and pay it forward.
By making this a family event, it normally will trigger thoughts in your children's minds of how they could gift something forward.
The stories that can be shared by others when they were gifted unexpectedly are things that are kept in the mind forever. Step up and be the "Princess" today and do something nice for someone. Does not have to be about money or paying... it could be mowing your neighbor's yard, or baking cookies for a friend. Sit down together as a family and see what ideas you can come up with for your children. REMEMBER: "your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’" Matthew 25:35-40Follow the Spirit of the Paint... giving and doing for others.
Laurie Pace - A Texas Artist
Laurie is an international artist, her paintings are collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia, and Ecuador.
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