Children

I am a mother and I tell you that this career, which is not learned at university, is one of the most difficult of our lives and it is the one in which we must put the most effort, because getting A's is almost impossible.

Luckily God came into my life, rather I came to God, because He was always there for me and He is the one who has helped me go through all the difficult stages for the life of a young man and his parents.

This test is made even more difficult because we are not prepared to face it. We think that we will always have control over that being that was born one day from our wombs and that we believe that it has an obligation to be subject to our laws and it is in adolescence where we realize what we stopped doing to prepare the terrain, so that the stones that we find are the minimum possible. Only then do we experience how control escapes from our hands and we fall into the feeling of helplessness which sometimes makes us lose control, with the consequences that this entails.

This stage, if we have known how to prepare it properly, will unite us even more with our children and they will be receptive to our advice. The secret is not to give up, at first the adolescent does not want to listen, but with our perseverance and love, especially avoiding confrontations, he will understand everything we want to convey to him, especially if we are fair in our judgments and we show him evidence and testimonies of our own lives that make them notice that we are not perfect either, in this way we will achieve that they open up to us and trust their feelings and this is the only way we can help them.

Sometimes we act before our children as if we were perfect, nothing separates a young person from their parents more than feeling judged by someone like that, let's not fool ourselves, we are not perfect and those of us who are in Christ are improved, but there is still a long way to go for walking, I would like you to see me when I walk behind my son through the house with the Bible in my hand trying to make him understand that only the word of God is what guides me to try to be a better person for the Lord and that nothing it comes from my finite mind, but from the infinite mind of God and his Eternal Word.

I feel sorry for parents who do not know God, because I am convinced that "If Jehovah does not build the house, those who build it work in vain" and those of us who were not born into a Christian home, we feel holy envy of those who do. they did, because God tells us in his word "Instruct the child in his way and even when he is old, he will not depart from it." One feels the lack that God makes in the life of a human being when he has children who came late to the gospel, because one was late and this is a chain. My children, for example, knew Christ because I gave my life to Him approximately 8 years ago, I thank God because everyone is on his way, but the journey was not easy. For this reason, I recommend that young people come to the Lord's feet sooner rather than later, so that He paves the way in raising our children. Remember that the Psalmist said: “As arrows are in the hands of the mighty, so are the children of youth, blessed is the man who filled his quiver with them, he will not be ashamed when he speaks with the enemies at the door” (Psalm 127: 4 , 5).

And I tell you that this is accomplished only if we have the steady hand and the aim to guide those arrows towards the perfect target that is Christ.