![]() The wise Father of you and your children designed parenting to be a bit-by-bit, piece-by-piece process. ![]() So you have partial conversations and unfinished moments, but in each moment you are imparting wisdom to your child, each moment you are exposing your child’s heart, each moment you are building your child’s self-awareness, each moment you are enlivening your child’s conscience, each moment you are giving your child great God-awareness, each moment you are constructing a biblical worldview for your child, and each moment you are giving the Spirit of God an opportunity to do things in and for your child that you cannot do. Seldom is change the result of a dramatic moment. ![]() Since change is most often a process and seldom an event, you have to remember that you can’t look for a dramatic transformational conclusion to your encounters with your children. It’s important to make the mental/spiritual shift from viewing parenting as a series of unrelated corrective encounters to viewing parenting as a life-long connected process. ![]() You Need to Parent with a Process Mentality ![]() If you want to be a sharp and ready tool in the hands of the great Author of change, here are three mentalities that need to shape your parenting. What character is required so that we can be part of what God is seeking to do in the lives of our children and not in the way of it? What needs to be done, we can’t do, but we have been chosen to be a ready tool in the hands of the One who is ready and able to do it. ![]()
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