If you haven't read anything by Gary Thomas - you should. Sacred Marriage is my all time favorite book on marriage. This book on parenting is proving to be more of the same.
Here's a bit to chew on ...
"Our own spiritual quest must drive our parenting. Unfinished or neglected spiritual business inevitably works its way out through our relationships in a negative fashion: we become more demanding, more controlling, more intolerant, more resentful. Our spouses and our children cannot quench the God-given spiritual hunger in our souls. When we neglect God, we ask our marriage and our parenting to become stand-ins for God - something they were never designed to do."
2 comments:
oooooooh wow. You always have such amazing quotes to share. I love learning from what you read :)
I'm gonna have to get that book.
Sounds like a great book. I can always count on you for a good book recommendation!
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