Alora’s Reviews > Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms > Status Update

“that no matter what the phase of the family, no matter what the stage of one of my children, I am here with them in covenant because God is with them in covenant. And if God loves them just the way they are, then so will I. And if Jesus gave up everything for them, then I can sacrifice too. And if the Holy Spirit is with us, then I’ll never leave either.”

CRYINNNNGGGGGGGGGG

“Grace means that our failures don’t have to set us back, they can call us forward. Grace means our mistakes aren’t nearly so much opportunities to see how bad we are, but opportunities to see how good God is. Grace means that even though parenting by itself doesn’t make us less selfish, parenting in the hands of God does—it sanctifies us.”

“I suddenly had the kind of clarity of thought that can come only with the conviction of the Holy Spirit, and I thought, “You’re trying to use your anger to control him when you should be using your love to console him.”

“This is the great burden and blessing of parenting—we have the opportunity and the duty to seek out our children and use conversation to help heal the pain that we all carry. Trauma and secrets can burn us up from the inside out,3 but conversation is what turns those destructive fires of our own fallenness into the refining fire of God’s grace. And so often it comes through the grace of conversation.”

“Just remember that the little things you habitually do in front of your kids is an enormous part of the marriage legacy you leave them, and that’s not a burden, that’s a gift and an opportunity.”

Wow 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✨