Parenting with Grace
Raising kids when you're still learning yourself.
For the days you wonder if you're getting any of this right.
The big idea
You don't have to be a perfect parent. You have to be a present one.
What does “Parenting with Grace” walk through?
Talk About Them
Deuteronomy 6:7 · KJV
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
In plain English
Pass these words on to your kids — talking about them at home, on walks, going to bed, getting up.
In the Margins
Faith mostly transfers in the margins. Not the lecture. The drive home. The bedtime. The car ride. The little 'why' questions you never feel ready for.
Train Them Up
Proverbs 22:6 · KJV
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
In plain English
Help a child grow into the right way; the foundation lasts a lifetime.
“Your kids don't need a perfect parent. They need a present, repenting one.”
When You Get It Wrong
You will. The recovery is the lesson. Apologize when you blow it. That single act teaches more than a hundred sermons about humility, grace, and what God's love looks like in skin.
Pray
Father, give me patience for the children you've trusted me with. Make me slow to anger and quick to apologize. Where I fall short, fill in.
Write it down
What's one small thing you want your kids to learn about God from how you live this week?
You finished: Parenting with Grace
Showing up imperfectly, again and again, is the whole job. The grace your kids see in you is the grace they'll find in God.
Which passages does this journey use?
2 passages, drawn from Deuteronomy 6:7, Proverbs 22:6. Every verse appears here in the King James text with a plain-English line beside it, so you can read it without a commentary open. Allow about 5 minutes for the whole thing, or 6 short sittings.
- Deuteronomy 6:7
- Proverbs 22:6
Read any of these in full on the complete KJV, or look the wording up independently at Blue Letter Bible.
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