Tabatha S Waybright

I was thinking this morning about how our present culture wants to lump us all in baskets and then label those baskets with ridiculous biases, then shame us for existing.
We are baby boomers or millennial’s, democrats or republicans, males or females, rich or poor, Christians or Muslims or whatever label we choose to pick. Then we are sectioned off into race: black, white, Asian, Hispanic and the list goes on.
This is not bad in and of itself, but then the labels get pasted on the baskets. Add the word “all” to the label and hate takes root.
For instance if we begin to think that all men are rapists, or all whites are racists or all women are pro-choice, we sadly do harm to our whole society.
But God does not put us in baskets and he does not apply labels that don’t define us.
God looks at each one of us as individuals He has fashioned into his image. He looks at our hearts and He judges us on just one thing: Do we know and love his son?
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. ” Romans 8:1 NIV
So we too need to be careful as we look on our fellow members of the human race and make sure that we don’t define an individual by the basket he might get shoved into. Let us practice loving one another as Christ loves us.

In the Ms. Clara series of stories, children learn manners and ethics in a fun way. Kindness, fairness, commitment, and forgiveness are just a few of the subjects addressed.
Here is a sneak peek at Ms. Clara.

Ms. Clara loved kids. She loved little kids and medium sized kids and big kids! Shucks, she loved everyone ’cause aren’t we all just big kids when we grow up? And she loved it when people dropped by to visit. She always had a cookie, a cupcake or other type of sweet ready. And tea or milk to wash it all down of course! But most “kids” did not remember the sweets as much as they remembered how kind Ms. Clara was! And she came with a bonus, because she had an amazing apron!

I have already tried the stories out on my Grandkids and they seem to love the whimsy and magic and hopefully they learned a lesson or two as well.
Stay tuned for further updates. God has provided an awesome illustrator for the book so I am already very excited!