Part two of the previous article I posted is very good too…

What I Would Do Differently, Part 2  http://www.doorposts.com/blog/2012/03/27/what-i-would-do-differently-part-2/

 

 

 

I really needed to hear this today.  I have been beating myself up over my parenting choices and mistakes and what I would do differently IF I could go back and do it all again.  My prayer is that God has a plan for my kids and even though I can’t see it now that I would have peace as we walk through these teen years.  But I also acknowledge that they have freewill and make their own choices despite God’s plans. 

“And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6).

I need to learn this…

“. . . I began to speak less to the kids and more to God”

“Who do I think I am? If I can’t change my own heart (and I can’t), I’m certainly not going to succeed in changing my children’s hearts.”

“It’s His job, not mine, to change hearts.”

from the article called “What I Would Do Differently” at http://www.doorposts.com/blog/2012/03/20/what-i-would-do-differently-part-1/