Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.
Interpretation
Fathers should demonstrate sacrificial love for their mothers to model the Gospel for their children.
This quote emphasizes the importance of parental relationships in the upbringing of children, particularly highlighting how a father's love for the mother serves as a practical example of the Gospel's teachings. When children witness selfless and sacrificial love in their family dynamics, they learn important values about love, commitment, and faith that are central to the Christian doctrine.
In practice
In a sermon discussing family values, one could use this quote to illustrate the impact of parental love on children's faith.
Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.
My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots—how could she possibly worry about being possessed by a goddess? What goddess would want her, except the goddess of chewing gum?
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love.
Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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