Although I carried them and birthed them,
my children, ultimately, are not my own.
They come from the God, and my job is to guide them back to God.
And the only way to manage this is, again…
that over all our efforts, all our qualities, we must put on that perfect bond
of love. We are asked to think a little
less of ourselves. To teach our children
to listen and to obey, and then to let them go their own way, even if we don’t
understand it. To hope that whatever
anxiety they cause us, that we’ll find them exactly where they’re meant to
be. To believe that ultimately, we’ll be
reunited with them in our Father’s house.
There are so many pressures on families
these days, and it is all too easy to run around filled with anxiety or
bitterness; to provoke each other; to become discouraged. And, in our grasping and searching and
wandering, we long for some feeling of control.
But today’s readings urge us otherwise:
We are asked to let the peace of Christ control our hearts. Which means that we must let go of who we
thought we were in order to fully become who Christ asks us to be. It means that we must stop insisting we will
do things, as my son says, by
our own, and instead recognize that all
we are we owe to the one who keeps reaching out to us, taking our hand, even as
we try to pull away – the one who guides us and stands beside us, with every
step we take.
--Kerry Weber
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