Who Art In Heaven (The Lord’s Prayer for Parents)
“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.
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.”
One of the best gifts I can give my students is to make sure to keep my own heart spiritually healthy and close to Jesus. Then I can invite them to experience the joy of walking with Jesus that I am actually experiencing.
Students can proclaim God’s greatness right where they are, and partner with those who have gone to hard places to do the same.
Children will pay more attention to what they see us doing (or not doing) than what we merely tell them, and this is true of our prayer lives.