Early Tuesday morning last week, our fourth grandchild was born, Jeremy Ian Fetterolf! What memories that brought back to me, and yet I realized there were sure a lot of things I didn’t remember.
As I visited with our daughter, Candice, and her husband Ben, and sons JD and Jeremy, I was reminded by her how much babies glean from being close to their parents, or others for that matter. Although that reality was undoubtedly practiced on her when she was an infant, I had forgotten that specific statement. I did remember, though, how much of our parenting was based on James 1:5, which says, “if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.” What a blessing to have memorized that verse in my early years, but what an even greater blessing it was to put it into parenting practice!
I encourage you, no matter what stage you are in the parenting process, from being one with no children, to being one with grandchildren, keep using that free gift of wisdom that God wants to supply. He never runs out, and it will always help!
James 3: 17 reads: “But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.”
