Not infrequently, husband John and I will be part of conversations with our daughters like the following one. It’s about Maggie’s summer internship in Northern Uganda where the Lord’s Resistance Army has forced children to be soldiers. She’ll be working with those who have been brutalized but have escaped…
The other day after he read this husband John asked me (rhetorically), “How does this keep HAPPENING??!”
Others also ask us this too (although it sounds more like: “How did you raise your daughters?”) The primary answer is: “With a LOT of mistakes and loads of God’s GRACE.”
Both our daughters, and we, will continue to mess up as we try to follow Jesus, but we also trust that God will pick us up when we stumble, Here’s what we tried to teach them as they were growing up… Continue reading
