As long as I approached Scripture deciding what to believe and what to discard, I missed out on so much peace.
Discipling our teenagers is identical to the Lord rescuing us from our waywardness and sin. And the Lord rescues us because he delights in us.
The Gospel teaches parents that we are to encourage certain childlike qualities in our teenagers even as we lead them into spiritual maturity.
Though we are made in God’s image, unlike Him, we are creatures locked in time. There are limits to our understanding. We are unable to know what we do not know. Full stop. And yet…
If only I had had the wisdom then to spare my son the pride I felt in his innate talent. My focus on his musical gifts was exasperating to him over the years, and it was a long time before that light bulb came on in my head.
When our second son was born, one of my favorite baby gifts was a Noah’s Ark children’s lamp. The base was a ceramic ark with Noah’s head looking out one window, and the long neck of a giraffe…
