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Ever felt that parenting is difficult? That some how you are just on a treadmill with no end in sight and no clearly defined destination? I do, often. But then I remind myself of a key point that I discovered when Lainey and I trained to teach the "Parents for Life" course. A key point that helped me keep parenting in context and helped me to decide which, of all the many, spinning plates is important to keep spinning. The key point is simple, as parents we are not called to raise godly children, we are called to raise godly adults.

The key point is simple, as parents we are not called to raise godly children! We called to raise godly adults.With this in mind I have been able to understand my goal in parenting. I'm not just here to provide a roof and food for my kids, but also an education that develops their character so that eventually they will be godly, trustworthy, moral individuals in this world. Through my parenting I can see that I have an opportunity to change some of what I see as being wrong in this world. I can affect bad moral principals and reduce the injustice I see around me by raising my children in a way that they become part of the solution rather than part of the problem for the next generation.

All of a sudden my parenting has gone beyond providing a better childhood for my children than I had, to developing my children into being better people than I ever was. Now I have a goal and a context for my parenting. I also have a measure to see if I have succeed as a parent.