We were heading over to visit some friends. It wasn't a long trip. These friends live in the same county that we do, but we had not yet been to their new home. It was in a newer development, you know the kind where all the homes look the same and the streets run parallel with each other. Little did I know the street I chose to turn down was not a thruway. What I thought would lead me to my destination actually ended in a dead end.
And while we recognize the importance of each of these skills to developing our kids into fully functioning mature adults, there are other areas we want our kids to grow in. One of these major areas is discernment.
When I eat too much from the top of the food pyramid, it's not healthy. When I starve my body of the foundational elements, it can be damaging. If this is true of our bodily diets, cannot we not apply the same framework to our intake of knowledge and information.
You find yourself in the middle of a situation seeking to discern what is going on and how to respond appropriately...
Trying to ask a 2 year old where he put something and expecting a sufficient answer, is like asking Alexa to play a song that happens to share a title with 40 other songs.
...These are just some of the things I wish someone had told me...
Preacher on the Run... 