Guilty

Posted on August 28, 2007 
Filed Under Parenting, Spiritual Life

I’ll admit it: I am guilty.

I have vowed to do better, but too often I fall far short.

It isn’t that I am ignorant. I can’t claim I didn’t know better.

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The best intentions have been left behind, victim to inactivity, busyness, weariness.

So I’ll own up to my shortcoming, and put it out there, hoping others will find some kind of…I don’t know, assurance?

It is quite clear I am not the only one struggling in this part of life.

I’d guess that the majority of parents can identify with these feelings of inadequacy and guilt.

That’s why I hope parents around the world will hear Dr. Bruce Wilkinson’s message. He is a gifted, passionate and articulate man of God who suggests that parents need to – must – train up their children in spiritual matters. He speaks convincingly about the dread and failure that accompany most parent’s attempts to have (dum dum dum) family devotions – and the need to “just do it.”

Even reading that phrase, “family devotions,” did you cringe? Wouldn’t surprise me. All the more reason to hear this two-day series.

I can tell you that as I listened once again to this classic broadcast I knew I had to act.

So last night I grabbed a copy of “The Message,” and read the 27th Proverb. Only took a couple of minutes. The kids listened along. My wife asked a clarifying question about one of the verses. Then we prayed.

It was a nice return to a lost tradition, once which I hope will become routine again.

If I don’t teach my kids God’s Truth, giving them principles to live by and learn from, who will?

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