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Tea Time Tuesday: Coffee Reflections
“Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for, hope for and expect the Lord!” -Psalm 31:24
“My precious, each of us who are touched by the spirit of Christ, are created to bring light to this dark world. Maybe the light you bring will be to compose beautiful music to heal hearts. You might be a wordsmith to enlighten people’s faith. You will have a home of great hospitality where people can come to be loved, restored.” These were the messages my children often heard.
This is a time to build virtue and to form destinies by giving our children a vision of what their personal stories might be in God’s hands.
It is easy to fear the world our children have been born into. But what if, instead, we prepared our children to be warriors for His kingdom? What if we whispered over time, that God has chosen them to fight a valiant battle, to be a heroes of light, hope and goodness in their time, that some day, Jesus Himself will say, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant!" because they brought His light through their own story of faith?
We strengthen their virtue muscles by giving them opportunity to be sources of help or, comfort, love to those in need as we serve one another, bring meals to neighbors who are ill, host people who need God’s hospitality. We are the trainers, coaches of our children, to prepare them to stand strong in their world when God calls them away for His great work. To give purpose and meaning to life is one of the greatest gifts we can bestow. Now is the time to shape future adults who will be virtuous because God’s values have shaped their heart.
Though the battle rages, we shall prevail because Christ is the king and Lord over all. God uses real live people to live His reality into our worlds.
It is my prayer to remember that we will reign with Him through all eternity, after we have been faithful here to fight the good fight. May we run the race with godly endurance, keep our faith, and wait for His return. May our children who follow behind us find us faithful to leave them a story of hope, a pathway of courage and an end that rejoices in the reality of His presence.