Me:  Prodigal, are you having fun with Alyson?

 

Prodigal:  Yes, she is a joy to be around and just a wonderful little girl!

 

Me:  Today I can share for all the parents of little girls and boys or who are involved in the life of children.

 

Charles Swindoll in his book Parenting From Surviving to Thriving talks about some goals of parenting.

 

Cultivate a thirst, initiate a hunger, create an appetite for spiritual things in the lives of children of any age, as long as they are living under your roof, and do it in keeping with the way they are bent-disciplining the disobedience and the evil while affirming and encouraging the good, the artistic, the beautiful.

 

And then there are days you are just trying to find matching socks for them to wear and you are already five minutes late!  Keep going with the sacrifice and know that God has given you a gift!

 

Psalm 139:14

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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