I was reminiscing about my parents this morning as I study and read the Bible in Leviticus and God is handing out all the rules. One idea seemed to permeate the list of rules and one that was paramount in our family growing up. “You can” was modeled so much more than “You can’t”. It is also modeled in the New Testament when Paul said we “can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth us.” That is what my parents modeled to me. It takes strength to be a human being, and the very hardest strength is to enslave your body to your mind and then hopefully to your heart filled with God’s love. It didn’t matter if it was jumping in a pond, riding a pony, owning a gun at 10, picking up a snake, or caring for the town drunk my parents always lived a life of parenting that made me always think “I could”. There is a risk there but it is one that God is taking with each of us and one worth taking as a parent. One of the greatest gifts my parents gave me, believing that I can!!!
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