good mothers intuit good theology

"I think one of the biggest fears is we want to able to protect our children and do everything for them, and we can't. We can't. We will never be able to protect them fully. We can't change their hearts. We can train them, and we can discipline them, and we can do the best we can to point them toward God, but we can't change their hearts. That's God's job, and we have to trust Him for that. And it's hard to admit that to ourselves that we are frail and we can't do it. But if we're honest before God and pray and pray, He is faithful. He is a God who honors those who love Him and fear Him.

Do you think Miriam had a problem trusting God, seeing her mother trust God? Jochabed's faith was reproduced in her children, and that's because they saw it in action. And we have to be willing to be honest before them and say, "Hey guys, listen, I'm just petrified, but we're going to trust God." They respect that so much, our kids, when we do that. And they learn. We're discipling them that way. We're training them how to go to God when they're scared. And that's our goal, to reproduce our faith in them so that they would love God and serve Him with their whole heart. And if we're trusting Him, and we're in the word, and we're reverencing Him, and honoring Him, and praying, then we will be women of courage."

mommy
"Jochabed: dealing with fear"
not sure the setting
05/04/1994 --> pre-cancer