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.
The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.
Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.
All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.
Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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