His Words to Guide Them
Parenting is tough. We have seven grown children and two still at home. The longer I've parented, the more I realize I'm pretty much a mess. I don't have the answers. I can't claim all seven children as wonderful success stories. Parenting our last two isn't easier after already raising seven. That's probably not what you wanted to hear, but it is reality. It is scary for me to attempt to offer advice. The best thing I can offer is the Holy Scripture. I love Isaiah 55:8-11 which says, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts; neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return t