Jul 31 2009
Risk Taking and Adventure
A child needs to take a risk in this world. Not the destructive kind, but a healthy one. Risks such as not going along with the crowd, not easily influenced by the media (or what is “cool”). Healthy risk is doing what God says, despite of worldly opinions.
With risk, there’s adventure. Trying something new and sometimes fail at it. Having the willingness to change for the better, according to God’s will, is another reason to keep going. My child don’t always stay in her own comfort zone. God will always challenge her to be someone greater.
My job, as a parent, is to encourage and support her, with the help of the holy spirit:
If you love me, obey my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.
It’s an adventure of a lifetime.
