Dan B. Allender, How Children Raise Parents: The Art of Listening to Your Family
(Waterbrook Press, Colorado Springs, CO: 2003), 147.Monday, February 16, 2009
Encouraging - Hope
To hope for our children is not to bind them to our dreams for their success, fame, safety, or even happiness. Neither is hope the futile effort to redeem our own past by seeing our children do better than we have done. To dream for our children is to lean into the quiet cries of the Holy Spirit that call out the true, God-given name of our child. If we refuse to quit dreaming, we may one day hear this name. We must have the hope to imagine, and the imagination to dream, the reality of God for our children.
Dan B. Allender, How Children Raise Parents: The Art of Listening to Your Family (Waterbrook Press, Colorado Springs, CO: 2003), 147.
Dan B. Allender, How Children Raise Parents: The Art of Listening to Your Family
(Waterbrook Press, Colorado Springs, CO: 2003), 147.