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Tag Archives: parenting
RESISTING RESENTMENT
This mother is wrestling with an insidious infection to relationships: resentment. Resentment results from being injured or insulted by someone. It is the negative response to being hurt. This devastating emotion often slithers into our souls unnoticed. We might respond in anger or sorrow initially and then “get over it” – so we think. A close cousin to the more hostile attitude of bitterness, resentment can hide in the crevices of the soul and go undetected as it poisons us. Continue reading
CHANGE
Our household has been remodeled again. We sent our sixth child off to college last week, leaving only one child at home. We are not yet empty-nesters, but that status will force itself on us in a few short years. Continue reading
SOME FATHERLY ADVICE
I was recently telling someone about an incident I had with my father when I was 9 or 10. After school, I would often ride my bicycle to the Boys Club. I loved the sloping descent on one street, because the increased speed fed my daredevil instincts and darting around other kids walking home on the sidewalk satisfied my impetus to show off.
On this particular day, I miscalculated my approach to a very busy street. When I realized I was too close for the brakes to stop me safely, I jumped off my bike and ran along beside to stop it, yelling at a group of kids at the corner, “Look out!” Even this technique did not correct my mistake and I ended up running out into the street, causing some cars to stop suddenly. Continue reading
Posted in Fathers, Perspective
Tagged childhood, children, Fathers, forgiveness, honor, parenting, parents, perspective, respect
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FAITH OF OUR CHILDREN
“I think one of the things that is really tricky, particularly to convey to parents and the congregations as well, is that if you are trying to form your kids to be Christians, it’s not going to fit them very well for American culture. And actually, it’s probably going to deform them for some of the things that we value as a society.” (Kenda Creasy Dean in an interview with Ken Myers for Mars Hill Audio Journal) Continue reading
Posted in Christians Engaging Culture, Parenting, Spiritual Formation, Teens
Tagged Almost Christian, athletics, Christian Smith, consumerism, individualism, Ken Myers, Kenda Creasy Dean, Mars Hill Audio Journal, parenting, self-denial, soccer, Soul Searching, spiritual formation, teens
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