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The Most Special People On Earth - #6457
Children teach us something about openness, simplicity, humility, and faith. They help us unmask and they are soft cement that can still be written on. They're so important! They're a life to be shaped. Take stock of who gets your best attention and remember that Jesus thinks the children are some of the most special people on earth.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-most-special-people-on-ear...
You Can't Run Fast Enough - #6344
When you're running from God, you are a destabilizing force on everything and everyone around you, and God is pursuing you even to this moment today. It's a good thing isn't it that parents always catch their children? Because if they didn't, eventually you know those kids would run into disaster or death. Well, God is catching you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/you-can-t-run-fa...
A Parent's Hardest Job - #6338
We're assigned to nudge our children slowly but surely toward the gate. The gate's called personal responsibility. And if we do it well, they'll one day rise up and call us blessed. We just don't dare need them too much for our own identity. See, we're supposed to be getting them ready to leave. And that's a parent's hardest responsibility, but it's also one of our most important jobs.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/a-parent-s-hardest-job-6338
Turning Over Your Treasure - #6315
If you're a parent, could I encourage you to take a Hannah inventory today? Are you releasing your son or daughter for whatever? Whatever assignment your Lord has for him or her? Or do you have a plan for your child that you're trying to get God to sign off on. Don't stand in the way of God's best for that child of yours, and don't be seduced by the lies our world tells us about what's best for them.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/turning-over-your-treasure-6315
The Reason For the Wait - #6236
You've been waiting for God to come through. You want to be married. You're waiting for Him to answer your prayer about having a child, raising a child. You're waiting for that job, that heart change, that breakthrough, that answer, and it hasn't come yet. Don't panic. Don't let impatience cost you the perfect will of God. Premature babies aren't as healthy as ones that are full-term. Premature solutions aren't healthy either.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-reason-for-the-wait-6236
Why Your Nest Doesn't Feel Right - #6219
God has much more of Him that He wants you to experience, but it will only happen as you move beyond all your usual security blankets and abandon yourself to total trust in Him. He has so much more He wants to do with your life, but it is beyond your comfort zone.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/why-your-nest-doesn-t-feel-right-6219
The Pebbles In Your Shoes - #6227
I am so glad that Jesus is a sparrow-counting, hair-counting, daily bread kind of Savior, aren't you? But I need to go to Him with the small frustrations! We could live much more victoriously if we would immediately go to Jesus for the grace He's promised us in the mini-messes - not just the big ones.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/the-pebbles-in-your-shoes-6227
How to Raise Kids Who Stay In Bounds - #6211
If you've been lax or inconsistent in helping your children understand the boundaries, penalties, ask them to forgive you. Let them know that, before God, you owe it to them to do a better job "ref-ing" the game of their life. Clarity, consistency, mutual trust and walking your talk: those are building blocks in authority that a child can respect and build a life on.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/how-to-raise-kids-who-stay-in-...
How to Hold Your Child - #6183
Keep reminding your children of the awesome person God made when He made them. You keep setting reasonable boundaries with reasonable penalties, and you be consistent with them. You keep listening to their heart. And you keep giving them back to God, and stop trying to be "God" in their life. Only He can be that.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/how-to-hold-your-child-6183
Letting Go of Your Little Ones - #6015
A surrendered parent is a parent at peace; a parent who knows that this treasure God has entrusted to them has this day been placed again in God's all-powerful hands. A God who knows the plans He has for that boy, for that girl - plans for good and not for evil, to give them a future and a hope. No matter how big your little ones get, remember Whose they really are.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/letting-go-of-your-little-ones...
