Watching 19 month old Michelle growing up and discover the world around her prompts me to marvel again at the privilege of parenthood. How wonderful it is to wach this little personality unfolding.
She finds such immense joy in the smallest of things, and dispenses love so unconditionally, it's a challenge to us to be 'as a little child'.
We are so honoured to have this little ray of sunshine in our home; and to us falls the responsibilty to help her discover her destiny in God. The trick, of course, is to try to get her there without losing too much of the spontanaity and generosity of her sweet spirit. Thankfully, with two parents and two older siblings, there is no shortage of love and attention for her, and she is an extremely happy baby.
We are so aware of the fact that, besides all the love we give her, she needs to find her own walk with God. Thus there needs to be much discipling and prayer by us as parents, as well as walking the talk to set an example for her. We need to bring her to the point where she not only sees God at work in and through us, but sees and knows God's works in her own life. This means we have to ensure that our relationship with God is what it should be, so that He is seen to be at work - this is our most important challenge, but a privilege too.