After Exodus 20:12 and Ephesians 6:1-4
Honor your parents,
even if they fail,
even when they fail,
because they will,
because they do. But
they are in place
for a reason, to provide
structure and to nourish,
to bring up and sustain,
to rain and create
stability, a picture
of the divine, a symbol
of all authority on this earth.
Likewise, parents and
authority are not
empowered to vex,
to anger, to betray those
entrusted to them. Instead,
they are to lead,
they are to love,
they are to nurture.
Photograph by Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov via Unsplash. Used with permission.
Some Friday Readings
A Father’s Prayer for His Son – Tim Challies.
Getting Found: A Three-Year Anniversary – Martin Shaw at the House of Beasts & Vines.
A Dedication to My Wife – poem by James Matthew Wilson at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).
The Miraculous Phenomenon of Post-Hurricane Weather – Samuel Schaefer at Front Porch Republic.
A Sword in the Devil's Heart: Halloween Sermon by St. Gregory Thaumaturgus – Cody Ilardo at Power & Glory.
