Writing a Story on Their Hearts
Consider your relationship with your parents.
What memories surface?
Perhaps fun vacations, dad playing catch, mom taking you to get donuts.
Or mom listening as you learned to read, always talking through life.
Or less positive recollections – wishing they’d listen more, have more time for you.
Feeling like you never pleased them.
Dad often angry, mom withdrawn.
Whether good or bad, your parents penned a story on your heart that can’t be rewritten.
For better or worse, it inhabits formative space in your life.
Now you write a new story on your child’s heart.
Author Paul Kingsnorth wrote, “We use stories to make sense of life’s confusion and the business of being human.”
What narrative are you penning for your son or daughter?
A tale of compassion?
Hope?
Boundless love?
Do you share with them the wonder of God’s love and care over their lives?
Do you build relationship pathways where they feel connected, heard, cherished?
This isn’t to guilt you over missteps.
That’s the enemy talking.
This is about opportunity – to write a wondrous story of meaningful relationship.
It’s deeply moving that the God of the universe entrusts us to author this beautiful legacy.
What chapter will you write today?
