Even Christian parents can be too strict or too lenient, too preoccupied by work or too focused on their kids, too insistent on good grades or too regimented about sports. But imperfections aren’t villainy, unless we allow them to go unchecked.
We’re all shaped to a large extent, for better or worse, by our families of origin. It’s one thing to reflect on that personally, but it’s a whole new level of intimidating to consider it as a parent. We need a word more emphatic than “daunting” to describe the feeling that our parenting is informing and shaping another person’s story and we might be their story’s villain.
Thankfully, in the face of a monumental task, we can depend on Christ for the strength and grace to parent well for his glory.
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