This post is part of a series of 31 Day to Cultivating Heart Connections with Your Child as part of the 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes Challenge.
My fiancé and I sat hands entwined at our premarital counseling appointment with our pastor and his wife. We’d been meeting weekly for several weeks covering a variety of topics ranging from personality to personal finance. The topic of this particular day…children.
How many? Parenting philosophy? When was the right time to have them? Everyone seems to have an opinion on that one.
But our pastor’s words took me a bit by surprise. “Don’t wait until the perfect time to have children because the perfect time will never come—there will always be something standing in the way of the perfect time.”
Twelve years and four kids later, I’ve often thought about those words in relation to situations other than when to have children. The fact is life isn’t perfect. Our formulas don’t always add up. Our checkboxes don’t all get checked. The perfect time never arrives.
And we only get one life.
So don’t wait for the perfect time to cultivate heart connections with your children.
Don’t wait until you have the laundry caught up to play that board game.
Don’t wait until they get a little older to have them help you bake some cookies.
Don’t wait until they can sit still to read them stories.
Don’t wait until you finish your project to take the time to listen.
Don’t wait for the perfect moment that will never come.
Some things can wait, but our children never stop growing, changing, maturing. Today is the day to cultivate heart connections with our children.
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