As I grow into this role as a mom, I want to make the most of every moment. I want to do it right. But, I often see how I have messed it up somehow. I grow concerned, and then I pray that God will fill in the gaps of my parenting. I got to thinking that if I were the perfect mom, never messing up, then my children, in their imperfect lives, might think they need to be just as perfect. They may grow stressed and feel less than adequate to do anything meaningful with their lives. That led to the thought that perhaps our constant need for God, our spiritual growth as parents with our children watching our every move, is all part of God’s plan to teach our children how much we need Him, to teach them that they too will make mistakes, to teach them to get up from those mistakes and start again, to teach them the power and the need for forgiveness, to teach them about grace and mercy, to teach them to grow in their spiritual walks with God into a man or woman of spiritual stature, to keep pressing on until the race is finished. As parents, we are growing each day. Each day our children see our successes and our failures. While I would like to hide my imperfections, I share them with our children because I want them to learn to get back up, to keep going forward. As I grow, they will see that I have matured in Christ, and they will see the goodness of that growth, the goodness of that change in me. It is my hope that they will not only see the goodness that God has brought to my life but also desire that same goodness, that same change, that same growth in Christ.
Thanks for reading. May you each have a blessed Fathers' Day.