Parenting
What a hot potato this topic is! Perhaps it is helpful (?)
to remember the first children were rivals and it all ended badly.
And the murderer ended up being the father of the Hebrew nation!
Not the narrative a young couple wants to hear with their precious darlings in tow.
But surely the lesson here is that human beings are flawed and not everything
will be rosy wherever we live and however advantaged we may be.
But parents can be informed and more importantly learn the Christian
art of touch and love and forgiveness and tolerance, for Jesus is the Saviour of all, even parents.
See what love the Father has given us,
that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are.
The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:1
 The Mothers’ Union bears a worldwide burden and joy of parenting.
Each and every one of us will need to continually refocus
our vocation and ministry towards that end.
We are sacrificial in our use of time to the greater end
which is the nurture of parents and children.
Let our prayer this week be a form of self-examination,
looking truthfully at OUR motives, where our priorities lie,
what we may be able to learn in order to make wise decisions.