If you can get past the first sentence, today’s entry is a good read. Not to be hard on Neil, but my thought was this: pregnant and unmarried are not what you would have wanted, but your child is alive and healthy – there are far worse things that can happen! Or maybe I just read too much news, watch too many crime shows.
Now that that’s out of the way… It was interesting to be in on the thought process behind this man’s struggle. He was honest about the options he was considering, and I have to give him credit for that.
The terrifying truth about parenting, one that I’ve known in theory for years and am just now beginning to experience firsthand, is that at the end of the day, kids make their own choices. Good parents can end up with rebellious kids, and slacker parents can end up with shining examples of godly young men and women. Excuse me for a few minutes… I think I need to go read Ecclesiastes…
Back again. The part in today’s reading that struck me was this: It’s not a lack of problems that determines the quality of our ministry [or the quality of our spirituality], but how we handle the problems we have.
Even wanting a life without the big stuff going wrong is, well, wrong… I need to repent of wishing for an easy life. Character is born in the struggle. God uses my troubles to help me relate to people going through the same thing. I have to focus not on what I wish for, but on handling my problems with God’s grace and wisdom.
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