If you’re like me, your greatest desire for your children is that they will love Jesus, love people, and be on mission for His kingdom. There are all sorts of other hopes and dreams that cluster around those three things, but in my prayers for my kids, I find that I keep coming back to those.
Almost anyone will tell you that parenting is tough, but trying to be the kind of parent God wants you to be is even tougher. We recognize there are high spiritual stakes in how we raise our children, which is why we’ve got to take this responsibility seriously and lean heavily on the Lord for His wisdom and grace in the midst of our failures.
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