The gentle grace of parenting in these days comes from the promises you made to them when you met them:
I’ll always take care of you.
I’ll always protect you.
I’ll always love you.
I’ll do my best to show you the way.
In order to do those four things, we have to engage the gentle grace our Heavenly Father so abundantly lavishes on us. Remember how loved you are, then pay it forward by loving them well.
Read MoreToday, as your soul whispers But I don’t want this or that, I want something in between… listen to it.
If one end is joy & the other is grief, pull both together; invite them both over for dinner and see how your soul rests in both.
If one end is structure and the other is creative freedom…
I’m so uncomfortable in that middle, in that act of changing. I want to be there already. It’s kind of like going on vacation. I want to jump from my front door to the hotel, post haste. I know we’re supposed to enjoy the journey and everything, but … I’m good, God, just get me there.
And even though this happens on the regular, I am surprised every time. Which means God has a chance to work on me. Every. Single. Time. … Sound familiar?
Read MoreWe pray and hope and work for things that we want. We receive blessings and bad days and more blessings. Sometimes--once in a blue moon, as far as I've ever experienced--those blessings arrive *precisely* how I imagined they would. Most of the time those blessings are quite different from what I pictured. Sometimes that's okay. Sometimes I utter, "That's not what I meant," and I have to dig a little deeper to find the gratitude I know I should be feeling.
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