Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.
Interpretation
Fathers should demonstrate sacrificial love for their mothers to model the Gospel for their children.
This quote emphasizes the importance of parental relationships in the upbringing of children, particularly highlighting how a father's love for the mother serves as a practical example of the Gospel's teachings. When children witness selfless and sacrificial love in their family dynamics, they learn important values about love, commitment, and faith that are central to the Christian doctrine.
In practice
In a sermon discussing family values, one could use this quote to illustrate the impact of parental love on children's faith.
Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesnβt exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.
Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.
Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.
Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts - but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it's any better - but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.
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