What is your dream as a parent? What are your dreams for your children?

Success? Riches? Fame?

None of the above.

I raised my children as a single parent for most of their formative years. My goal was for them to be Christ followers -that I would somehow manage, despite my imperfect life and multitude of flaws, to point them to Christ. That they would each decide to serve Him.

In putting Christ first in their life, seeing things through His eyes, they would be compassionate people. Caring. Servant leaders.

Bottom line, I wanted to raise good people.

Selfless, not selfish. Other-centered, not self centered.

Outside of faith in God and being daily disciples, I don’t know how this is possible.

Only God can get our eyes off ourselves. Only God can heal the deep wounds that happened in a less than ideal childhood.

Only God.