"Asking Ourselves a Key Question" by Dr. Wally Goddard

I just read this article online and thought I'd share it. It was too good to keep to myself. Here is the link:

Meridian Magazine - Asking Ourselves a Key Question

I loved this article by Dr. Wally Goddard. (He helped redo my favorite parenting book, "Between Parent and Child" by Dr. Haim Ginott, fyi.). I think this article brings up great points about how we view our relationship with God AND how we parent our own children. It definitely has given me something to think about tonight. I loved this part of the article the most:

Often, when [church] members expressed guilt that their scripture study was not deeper and more regular and that their prayers were not more lengthy and rich, I challenged them. Can you talk to Heavenly Father as you drive to work? Can you talk to Him about your hopes, worries, and dreams? Will you hum a favorite hymn of praise as you run errands during the day? Will you look for His face in the ordinary faces of friends and family members?

We must not reduce the spiritual practices that reveal God’s face into perfunctory and obligatory rituals of worthiness. Rather, we can sustain a conversation with Him even as we watch for His gracious hand and loving Face in our lives. Elizabeth Barrett Browning said it beautifully as she described the burning bushes in our lives:

Earth's crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God;

But only he who sees takes off his shoes;

The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

(Aurora Leigh, book 7, lines 820-23) p.254

How beautiful is that poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning? I love it.


Hope you enjoy it too!