Daily Meditations for Parenting Our Kids, is a natural outgrowth of my life-long interest in helping people improve the quality of their lives. I have pursued this interest as a hospital chaplain, minister, teacher, family counselor, clinical supervisor, parent and now as a grandparent. I chose the format of daily meditations because of the tremendous power of systematic focused attention.Of all the methods and techniques for achieving personal growth, none is more effective than a discipline of daily attention.

I hope this volume will be your companion for comfort, insight, and encouragement as you seek to improve the quality of all your relationships, and especially those with yourself and your children.

Recovery is a both a painful journey and terrific encounter with ourselves, our spiritual nature, and the holy other. In recovery, this mysterious other who seeks to lift us from our unnecessary suffering and show us the path of serenity is called Higher Power, or God, as we understand him. Although I am comfortable calling my Higher Power God, and do in this book, I encourage you to use whatever name or symbol fits for you on your journey.

For me, faith is following the path as far as I have light to see, and taking another step. Faith is acting as if the universe is being run by a friend of mine. I don’t have to stay awake at night worrying about how everything will turn out. I don’t have to manage all the outcomes of life.

God, my Higher Power, the holy other is in charge of the universe. I can sleep peacefully and awake each new day to do the best I can to seek and do his will in my corner of the universe.Even when I fail, as I often do, I am surrounded by God’s love.

As a counselor, I’ve had the privilege of hearing the life stories of thousands of men and women in recovery. I admire their honesty, courage, and determination to improve their lives and deepen their spirituality. I see them reach out to others with both compassion and humility as they seek to share the serenity they have experienced.

When I seek to touch the lives of others with hope and healing, I am regularly reminded that I live by grace and not by gumption. If I have been able to offer you a word of hope and healing, it is not by my superior intelligence, outstanding effort, or unusual talent but by amazing grace.

You can read and hear meditations from Daily Meditations for Parenting Our Kids here.

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You may read several selections from my second book,

 

Raising Children One Day At A Time! here.