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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].