"When you have small children, you can simply never realize what it is going to be like to one day face them, as adults, with the realization that YOU have shaped them into the persons they will be for all of their lives. If we realized what it really means to create, nurture and shape another person in the deepest of human ways, we’d be frozen with fear. So much of what they are comes from us in ways that were unintended, or unknown or unplanned. Your children are truly a legacy of the kind of person you really are, and of how you’ve lived, how you’ve loved and what you’ve considered most important."
-from “Reflections on Being a Parent of Adult Children” by Michael Spencer on his blog, internetmonk.com
(HT: Brad)
1 comment:
tru dat. i think about this almost every day.
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