It takes 11,000 pounds of fuel per section to push a rocket off into space. To put it into perspective, that is two million times the rate at which fuel is burned in the average family car. I wonder, how much fuel does it take to push a child out into the world?
Tag: parenting
Mothering is certainly not limited to one day on the annual calendar. Mothering is a day-in and day-out endeavor. This feels obvious when our children are in diapers requiring bottles every three hours, but the responsibility does not lessen when they spread their wings and leave the nest.
This scripture skips across a couple hundred cell towers and into my heart. “He gently leads those that have young.” This isn’t just a promise for the young, but for those who have young. What comfort!
“I gave you empty stomaches in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to Me.” (Amos 4:6 NIV) If I am understanding Amos correctly, the people of God loved to worship; they adored the rituals and the routines.…
The Lord disciplines because He loves. He can see so much farther than we can; He sees where our sin will take us. He knows how rebellion and selfishness will permeate a person and lead us down path of death. He loves us too much to leave us entirely to our own devices. He refuses to take His hand off us, even when His hand is heavy with repercussion. He will not abandon us to our arrogant ignorance. He intervenes. He corrects. He issues consequence as any truly loving parent would.
If anyone had valid reason to walk away from the pain of relationship with Jesus and His body of believers, it was His mother. And yet, she didn’t.
I suspect the Magnificat chased Mary down through every day of her journey as mother to Jesus.
Joseph’s part in the nativity narrative is marked again and again by obedience.
At some point in our lives, we cross a threshold where we become the exact total of our decisions.
Jesus pressed the disciples to a place of decision.