Not Your Job

Okay, so I don't really have all this time on my hands but I'm getting ready for bed and I just happened to read this on a friend's blog: She said: "‘it’s so hard to raise well-balanced, well-rounded, well-adjusted, stable kids.’ And what he said (the pastor of her church) back was so good. He said, “well that’s not your job.” It stunned me for a second, because it TOTALLY feels like my job. He continued with, “…that God’s job. Your job is to love them.” That was so freeing to hear. I’m not sure if he understood how good that was for me. Despite my parenting inadequacies God will still parent them. Thank goodness. I guess that keeps us all humble in a way. We can’t take all the credit for how great of parents we are/were OR how bad of parents we were."

I just felt like I should share that....I have felt like it's my fault that the whole biting thing happened, like if I was staying home with him that it wouldn't have happened or if I wasn't so stressed out with school and trying to get pregnant again that he wouldn't have had any problems. But the truth is, no matter what we do, our kids are going to make mistakes and do great things too but it's not because of how great or not so great of parents we are...my job is to Love Joel and teach him about God. That's it. That is really freeing.
And I do love him....so so so much.