I never knew that my children would be such a vehicle for the Lord transforming ME!

I thought my being a parent was really all about their maturation, growth, and spiritual development.

In reality, that is not the way it really works out.

God loves me so much that He just keeps working on me… and my children are often His best chisel.

Right now He is using them to teach me more about waiting on Him.

In trying to maintain a relationship with my teens and young adults, I am having to learn to wait on the Lord.

My children really would benefit from the wisdom of experience, opinions, and ideas I have on how they run their lives.

However, at this season, I have to learn to wait.

You see, with this age of child, “unsolicited advice often is seen as criticism.”

I AM the one who needs to listen and wait and pray…

Wait until God tells me to share ANY of that insight, experience, counsel, and even correction.

Otherwise, walls may be built in our relationship or they tend to close off and not listen to my advice – much less seek it.

So I wait.
“Lord, you tell me when to speak and what to say and I will wait until you do.”

And I spend a lot of time - praying and asking for Him to tell me whether and how to speak... and I am even beginning to learn  NOT to be so impatient with His timing.

David understood this idea and I am following HIS advice!
Ps 37:3-7  Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord;  trust in him, and he will act…7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;

Amazingly, as I choose to wait on Him, commiting myself and my children to Him even more - as I trust and seek Him, I am seeing God at work much more in my family, our individual lives, and in our relationships than when I just spoke as I thought I should.

Imagine that.

God has a better way!