As parents, we hurt when our children do. It hurts to watch our normally confident boy walk in the door with his head hanging low after football tryouts. Or our enthusiastic daughter sobbing when the debate team emails the final roster, and her name isn’t on it. In a way, we can be even more devastated than they are.
But what if we step back and review the times in life we’ve been disappointed? What lessons did we learn? How did God use that experience for His glory and His plan for our lives?
Kids love hearing vulnerable stories from their parents, and as we describe what God did in those moments, we remind both our kids and ourselves of God’s faithfulness. Yes, when we don’t get something our heart was set on, we want to crawl into a hole and stay there. But it is our plans that have been disappointed, not God’s. He is directing our steps to beautiful places our hearts could never have imagined on our own.
Excerpts taken from Shaunti’s devotional, Find Peace: A 40-day Devotional Journey for Moms from iDisciple Publishing
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