Written by Justin Whitmel Earley, a contemporary author. This is an excerpt from his book “Habits of the Household.”
Said, perhaps, with a hand on your child’s face or head:
Parent: Do you see my eyes?
Child: Yes
Parent: Can you see that I see your eyes?
Child: Yes
Parent: Do you know that I love you?
Child: Yes
Parent: Do you know that I love you no matter what bad things you do?
Child: Yes
Parent: Who else loves you like that?
Child: God does.
Parent: Even more than me?
Child: Yes
Parent: Rest in that love.
This blessing may not always go smoothly at first. But with habit, these words of God’s unconditional love for us set a pattern for spiritual formation.
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. [Proverbs 22:6].
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