{"id":3339,"date":"2019-07-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2019-06-23T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T18:21:05","slug":"tough-love-for-giraffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/tough-love-for-giraffes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Love for Giraffes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe title=\"Tough Love for Giraffes 7\/15\/19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/ira3j-b57562?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/ira3j-b57562?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>I<u>n the book, <\/u><em><u>God&#8217;s Little Devotional Book for Graduates, the author has an interesting passage on mother giraffes that might help us<\/u>. <\/em><br \/><\/strong><br \/><u>The first thing to emerge at a baby giraffe&#8217;s birth, says the author, is its front hooves and head<\/u>. <em>&#8220;Minutes later, the newborn is hurled from its mother&#8217;s body, falls ten feet, and lands on its back.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><u>Within seconds, it rolls to an upright position with its legs tucked under its body<\/u>. From this position, it views the world for the first time and shakes off any remaining birthing fluid.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The mother giraffe lowers her head just long enough to take a quick look at her calf and then she does what seems to be <u>a very unreasonable thing<\/u>: <strong>she kicks her baby, sending it sprawling head over heels. <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><u>If it doesn&#8217;t get up<\/u>, <strong>she kicks it again and again until the calf finally stands on its wobbly legs. <\/strong><u>And then what does the mother giraffe do<\/u>? <strong>She kicks it off its feet! Why? She wants it to remember how it got up.<br \/><\/strong><br \/><em>&#8220;In the wild, baby giraffes must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with the herd and avoid becoming a meal for lions, hyenas, leopards, and wild hunting dogs. The best way a mother giraffe has of ensuring that her calf lives is for her to teach it to \u2018get up quickly and get on with it.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>It makes me glad I&#8217;m not a giraffe. <\/strong>But the author&#8217;s point is, of course, <strong>that the mother giraffe is engaged in tough love. <\/strong>There are certain demands that every parent must make for the welfare of his or her child. There are certain rules that must be enforced. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>No loving parent is going to allow a child absolute freedom. Such freedom could be deadly. Every loving parent has to say <strong>&#8220;No&#8221; <\/strong>from time to time. It&#8217;s not easy. <u>Sometimes it really does hurt the parent more than it does the child. But love sometimes says<\/u>, <strong>&#8220;No.&#8221;<\/strong>           <br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>Thanks to King Duncan<br \/><\/em><br \/><strong><em>If you don\u2019t have people in your life who will be tough, yet loving, firm yet gentle, all the while calling you into a deeper relationship with Jesus, you are missing out on what God intended relationships to be<\/em>. <\/strong>   <em><u>A God Provide<br \/><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; In the book, God&#8217;s Little Devotional Book for Graduates, the author has an interesting passage on mother giraffes that might help us. The first thing to emerge at a baby giraffe&#8217;s birth, says the author, is its front hooves and head. &#8220;Minutes later, the newborn is hurled from its mother&#8217;s body, falls ten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1561313925_featured-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp; &nbsp; In the book, God&#8217;s Little Devotional Book for Graduates, the author has an interesting passage on mother giraffes that might help us. 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