From what my friends with adult children tell me, you never finish parenting. Evidently, we will always worry about and be involved in the lives of our children. That’s probably a good thing. For Christian parents, our finish line is getting to Heaven and having our children there with us. The longer we are involved in the lives of our children, the more opportunities we have of pointing them towards God.
If you have been working with your children this year on our plan to live more like Jesus, you may feel as if you are running a marathon. Like most of us, you have had good days and bad days. Weeks when you felt like you really were actively parenting your children towards God. And weeks where if everyone was still breathing by the end of the day, you considered it a major victory.