“It took me seventeen years to realize I couldn’t parent on my own. If I didn’t pray deliberately and reflectively for members of my family by name every morning, they would kill one another. I was incapable of getting inside their hearts. I was desperate. But even more, I couldn’t change my self-confident heart. My prayer journal reflects both my inability to change my kids and my inability to change my self-confidence. That’s why I need grace even to pray. It didn’t take me long to realize that I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing. ”
Best Parenting by Paul Miller
From Paul Miller in A Praying Life:
“It took me seventeen years to realize I couldn’t parent on my own. If I didn’t pray deliberately and reflectively for members of my family by name every morning, they would kill one another. I was incapable of getting inside their hearts. I was desperate. But even more, I couldn’t change my self-confident heart. My prayer journal reflects both my inability to change my kids and my inability to change my self-confidence. That’s why I need grace even to pray. It didn’t take me long to realize that I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing. ”