52. Your Child's Sacred Struggle: Questioning God, Finding Grace, Part 2

An honest story of brokenness, redemption, hope, and beautiful scars along with SPECIFIC ACTION STEPS for INTENTIONAL PARENTS - steps for the role you play in your child's sacred journey to make their faith their own.  

What's so sacred about struggling?  We don't realize it is sacred until later.  Later we see all the ways that God weaves together our mistakes and poor choices, our moments of doubt and brokenness, followed by Him redeeming us from the pit, and it is that redemption that turns our scars into something beautiful.  And then, then we see that the time of struggling was just as sacred as the time of redemption. This week you hear the rest of the story that we began last week -  the story of God making our scars beautiful.

Resources:
Clash In Your Home: Getting a Game Plan for Cleaning Up the Conflict     EBook version                                                                                                                     "Welcome"  "Whisper"  "Be Still" written, composed, and performed by Victoria Dahilig. Copyright 2009

A note from Victoria about the final song, Be Still,  in this week's episode...

I was 15 and at a crucial point in my spiritual formation. Struggling between simply living out “my parent’s faith” and making my faith and belief in God my own, I had been in a battle between the knowledge in my head and the feelings in my heart. I was doubting the goodness of God. This battle culminated in a struggle with depression, loneliness, anger and fear – God gripped my heart, drove me to my knees and drew me back to Him through the light of others and the truth of His word. 

As I searched Scripture, I re-discovered a loving Father who is attentive to every need and deep, heart-cry of His children and yet, sits in sovereign control of the Universe. A God who was not far from me, nor angry with me or disappointed in me but one who was close, constant and welcoming with open arms.