The Best Thing…
What if the best thing I can do for my children is not
another lecture…
another frown…
another privilege removed…
another forced apology…
What if the best thing I can do for my children is to call them away with a love-sick heart that wants nothing more than to “see that my children walk in truth”, and beckon them to kneel with me before the presence of a holy God…to bathe in His grace and know He gives power through it so that we can walk in newness of life.
Yes. Let me do that for them. Show them their need for forgiveness so that they can forgive. Let me do that for them again and again.
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February 21, 2010 11:25 pm
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Maybe that’s what we need in our home right now…
*slaps self on forehead*
ah well, better now than never
Thank You Kelly
Another EXCELLENT post! I would love to see more details on “walking this out.”
Kate
*humbled*
BRILLIANT,how blind am I that I could not see this need.THANK YOU KELLY!!This is why I read here daily.
Amen
Piercing and wonderful. To create one who does what is honoring to the Lord JUST to honor Him, and not to stay out of trouble…what a wonderful life that would be!
Lucy T.,
And because these posts are in large just a tapping out of what the Lord whispers to my heart, it is why I write here daily.
Ouch. There’s something to work on. I’m definitely better at those first four.
Thank you.
That was so beautifully written, Kelly!
Bless you so much, for following His leading and posting these words.
I REALLY needed that.
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Perfectly written, Kelly. If I have spent time with my family at the foot of the cross, then it has been a good day, no matter what else may come.