Forgive Us Our Trespasses… (The Lord’s Prayer for Parents)
When we pray the Lord’s Prayer and ask for forgiveness, we do so not with trepidation and terror, but in humble trust and joyful gratitude, for we know that we are truly and fully forgiven.
In the pressure of parental intensity, my theological field of view often narrows. But by faith, may the Lord enlarge our awareness that he protects and keeps us all unto the end (Jude 24).

When we pray the Lord’s Prayer and ask for forgiveness, we do so not with trepidation and terror, but in humble trust and joyful gratitude, for we know that we are truly and fully forgiven.
Our hunger as parents—broader, as Christians—is spiritual. It is for the Bread of Life, the Savior of the world.
As God hallows his name in our lives, he will continue to make us holy by the Spirit. Then we can better obey his commands and live out the gospel before our children and love them as he has loved us.
“Our Father, Who Art In Heaven.” When parenting seems unsurmountable, those words tell me where I am, where God is, and that God is El Roi, the God who sees.
My hope cannot be in my ability to parent perfectly. My hope must be in our Father who is perfectly wise, perfectly loving, and perfectly faithful.
Whatever our challenges are as a parent, large or small, we can pray with King David or with the smallest preschooler: “Oh Lord, be my help.”
