No parent will tell you raising children is easy. All of the inventions that are supposed to make life safer and easier for parents and children alike, at times only complicate. They certainly create new issues for parents to grapple.
For most parents we also wish for our children that they develop a relationship with God, not necessarily the same relationship as our own, but a relationship. Where the light shines brightest for a parent, may not be where the light shines brightest for the son or daughter. We can only hope that our children seek the light in their own way.
When I was a child and then as an adult, I was constantly being knocked off the right path and in danger of being lost by the pull of worldly forces. For our children the world has changed and the pull is different, but its goal is the same — to knock us off the right path, the one we were created to follow. The same will apply for our grandchildren for the world changes and the pulls are different for each generation.
As a parent and as a grandparent my prayer is that in the end, they will have wise and discerning hearts, and they will hear and respond to their own soft and sweet song that calls and says, “Come and follow me to God.”
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