Each and every family has a plan, a purpose and a calling from God, and the parents in that family are responsible to seek God and hear His plan, the rest of us get to support that, I love my family tremendously, all of my family, the ones who live here and the ones who don’t, the ones whom I am related to by marriage and the ones who won’t claim me at all … and yet none of them, none, can hear from God an how to raise our family better than we the parents, we take that so seriously, and we pray a lot… and when someone we love does not support us, we can either choose to cry or love them and go on …..
“that moment when you receive a Christmas card with pics from a beloved family member who has shunned you because we have chosen to raise our family the way God has led for us, not sure whether to cry or what …
I choose to not shed tears but love them anyway,
amazing how folks so young sometimes think they know so much about what others should do …..
I am still an overcomer, not because of me but because of Him, the one who holds my heart”
And the same goes for others, we offer parenting advice as seasoned parents, we have been doing this a very long time, and yet still .. I will not ever tell someone else how they need to run their family, because God gave it to them. And in that we trust Him also, and find peace.
Brenda says
I do the same thing – I’m saddened by family who doesn’t want to spend time with us because they don’t agree how our family runs; and yet we don’t tell them how to run theirs. Nice to know we aren’t the only one in this situation.