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Me:\u00a0 What are you doing Prodigal?<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Thinking about raking some leaves.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Maybe you need a left-handed rake?<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 I would be serachin’ till kingdom come for that!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Well, I can share some real facts with you.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Sounds good to me.<\/p>\n

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This comes from Beyond Opinion by Ravi Zacharias<\/p>\n

The single most important social influence on the spiritual lives of teens is their parents.\u00a0 Fathers in particular have a vital role to play in the spiritual development of their children.\u00a0 In his fascinating book Faith of the fatherless, social scientist Paul Vitz writes that in his study of the world’s most influential atheists (including Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, Bertrand Russell, John-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and H.G. Wells), all had one thing in common:\u00a0 defective relationships with their fathers.\u00a0 Moreover, when Vitz studied the lives of influential theists (Blaise Pascal, Edmund Burke, Moses Mendelssohn, Soren Kierkegaard, G.K. Chesterton, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer) during those same historical time periods, he found they enjoyed a strong, loving relationship with a father figure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Spending time with your child today for an hour might be more important then you think it is.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 27:1<\/p>\n

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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