Raising Children

No parent will tell you raising children is easy. All of the inventions that are supposed to make life safer and easier for parents and children alike, at times only complicate. They certainly create new issues for parents to grapple.

For most parents we also wish for our children that they develop a relationship with God, not necessarily the same relationship as our own, but a relationship. Where the light shines brightest for a parent, may not be where the light shines brightest for the son or daughter. We can only hope that our children seek the light in their own way.
When I was a child and then as an adult, I was constantly being knocked off the right path and in danger of being lost by the pull of worldly forces. For our children the world has changed and the pull is different, but its goal is the same — to knock us off the right path, the one we were created to follow. The same will apply for our grandchildren for the world changes and the pulls are different for each generation.
As a parent and as a grandparent my prayer is that in the end, they will have wise and discerning hearts, and they will hear and respond to their own soft and sweet song that calls and says, “Come and follow me to God.”

About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.

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