Delaware Dad

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
-Colossians 3:21 NKJV

Peaceful parenting is a long journey out of ancestral trauma. It’s multi-generational. My father broke a cycle of violence perpetuated by his father. It is my task to continue that exodus out of fear and into love.

It is imperfect and I do it wrong in all types of ways. My sons will be charged with carrying on better than I have.

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Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.
-1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV

The Greek word used for “love” here is “agapē.” This the highest, most selfless, form of love. Without interjecting Ego, we can love each other as God loves us.

I pray to love others in this way.

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“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
-Isaiah 55:10-11 RSV

I believe God’s Word is directing the universe toward His purposes. I believe those purposes to be good and I want to align my life with them.

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Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. “Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise: if you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.”
-Ephesians 6:1-3

I honor my parents by scrutinizing the fruits of my childhood with honesty. I embrace and passionately recreate the positive and lovingly release the negative.

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