Sometimes, usually late at night, the thought hits me... "Jonas, you're a really awful parent." I’ve just had a great day with my daughter. And then, as soon as the lights go out and my head hits the pillow, The Accuser starts his monologue. He drums up all of the ways I royally sucked as a dad (yes, and a husband) this last decade or so. He takes the smallest infractions and magnifies them to felonies.
Yep. Why is it we go to despair right off the bat. Dang it! For me it must be, as you wrote, to remind me to remember the goodness and remember who brings goodness forth every day. Thank you for the daytime reminder. ;)
Yet, God in His immense grace sometimes takes our flawed efforts & forms His image of faithfulness & excellence of a heavenly father into the hearts & minds of our children, so that they see us through the tinted lenses of His image.
I KNOW I messed up awfully with my children, and my discipline was often harsh to my own eyes, yet when I ask them about their childhood memories, they remember me as a good, kind, fair, wise & loving father.
Yep. Why is it we go to despair right off the bat. Dang it! For me it must be, as you wrote, to remind me to remember the goodness and remember who brings goodness forth every day. Thank you for the daytime reminder. ;)
Yep, we are crappy parents 😜...
Yet, God in His immense grace sometimes takes our flawed efforts & forms His image of faithfulness & excellence of a heavenly father into the hearts & minds of our children, so that they see us through the tinted lenses of His image.
I KNOW I messed up awfully with my children, and my discipline was often harsh to my own eyes, yet when I ask them about their childhood memories, they remember me as a good, kind, fair, wise & loving father.