Men,
I wanted to pass on a helpful article about balancing grace and discipline. I’ve found myself many times trying to figure out how to show grace as the disciplinarian. Some really good thoughts here.
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-glory-of-a-father
Wow, that was encouraging and humbling. I definitely have not been leaning on God enough in my fathering efforts (we’ve had our nieces and nephew living with us the last seven months). I have had some shameful moments of being “quick to anger.”
I liked Mathis’ point that we don’t get to feel peaceful and in-control for the next indefinite period of time, because that would mean we’re operating under our own strength. We have to go to God for strength for “today.” That’s it. We’ll be back again for more tomorrow.