What do you want to be when your children grow up?
Parents, are you so focused on your childrens’ futures that you’ve neglected to think about your own? At the Mothers of Preschoolers website, Sharri Kerkhoff reflects on an aspect of parenthood that isn’t often discussed: the importance of not forgetting God’s plans for your life, even while you work so hard to help shape your kids’ lives. God’s plan for you may include childrearing, but it doesn’t end there:
Somewhere in the middle of knowing everyone else’s favorite color, and food, and movie, and hobby; I’ve forgotten my own. My mother’s generation would wear that ignorance like a badge of selflessness and devotion. But, today we know better. We know that it’s neglect, not nurturing, that makes us forget who God made us to be. We know that someday our children will grow and leave our care.
What kind of woman will my children leave behind, I wonder? Will I recognize or remember her? What if she has no direction, drive or dreams of her own? If I wait to find out who I am until then, will there be any of me left?
Read the full article for the rest of Kerkhoff’s thoughts!
