I had no idea how big a job parenting was going to be.
I also had no idea how un-moldable
children can be much of the time. They have a mind of their own, not to mention a personality, emotions, annoying practices that become habits and so on.
One day a child’s foot came through the ceiling of our church office. He was sneaking around where he shouldn’t be and fell through. The comment of
one of our laymen was, “Wouldn’t you know it would be one of the pastor’s kids.”
Yep, it was one of ours. So much for being a perfect parent.
In fact, the only perfect parents don’t actually have children.
As soon as you have children, you realize how independent they are, and how deficient you are. At least if you are honest. You can be the best parent in the
world but have children that go off the rails.
How do I know this?
Because our Heavenly Father is the best, but his kids go off the rails
all the time. Even when given the perfect environment of the Garden of Eden, they chose to go their own way. (See Genesis 3).
