I would be lying to you and myself if I didn't admit that there are times I have failed completely as a parent. You know, when your kid let’s a cuss word slip that they’ve heard on T.V……not from their parent’s mouths of course. Oh, or that one time when I didn’t believe her when she said her tummy hurt and I found out the truth of that when she vomited all over a restaurant. I mean the list isn’t too long, but there is a list for sure.
However…..there are those trophy moments too. Those times where it’s like your child aces the tests of life, and you feel that pat on your back, that high five, that chest bump in waiting, because you prepared them well. That was the exact feeling I had last Sunday. I was rushing around the house, preparing breakfast and the Sunday School lesson simultaneously, and I heard Sadie yell, “Mom, I’m ready, and I got my dolls ready too.” As I walk by her room, I can’t help but pause as joy fills my heart. She had put two of her dolls in their Sunday best, packed them a bag, and tucked one under each arm. At church, she made them sit quietly, and even the one in the cast seemed to be very still and well behaved. In Sunday School, Sadie had made the dolls some little green dollar bills, and even took one of those and placed it in the offering plate. At the end of the service, Sadie, with her two dolls in hand stood up to worship God. As I observed this motherly instinct within my little girl, I prayed that she too would remember the importance of having her own children in church. That my grandkids one day would learn the lessons of sitting still, even if you are bored, of having reverence for a Holy God, learn how to sit in silence, how to pray, how to worship, and to hear the most important message of all, the message of salvation found only in Jesus. I pray that her kids will one day sing “Jesus Loves Me,”, that they will clap off beat and sing with all their hearts, and that they would carry on, not only the tradition, but more importantly, the faith. Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
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March 2020
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