tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119270472100281278.post8606914384281867266..comments2024-01-24T12:51:19.125-05:00Comments on Not Sure: When "The Faith" Won't Have Our ChildrenJohn Sukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14257475843355209416noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119270472100281278.post-42619364423012578732013-05-11T13:35:06.571-04:002013-05-11T13:35:06.571-04:00Thanks, Steve, for your very apt and real reflecti...Thanks, Steve, for your very apt and real reflections. I have certainly been there and done that with my kids, too. Both hard to accept (at one level) and freeing for both parents and kids. Good letter, too. John Sukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14257475843355209416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119270472100281278.post-69456637656893855712013-05-10T11:33:11.600-04:002013-05-10T11:33:11.600-04:00John, this is really relevant to me right now. Jus...John, this is really relevant to me right now. Just a couple of days ago I sat down to write a letter to my daughter that I haven't yet finished but I hope to soon. When she was a senior in high school, she sat my wife and I down to tell us that she couldn't pretend being a Christian any more. We of course went though some of the typical reactions. We are "public Christians" being missionaries with hundreds of people that know us in that way, so we got reactions from many other people. But what I wrote to my daughter was how much I admired and appreciated her for what she did and what she taught me. One of the biggest things was that I realized it wasn't such a bad thing. It fact, I realized that it was the best thing she could have done since before, she was living a lie. Another thing is that she is not a "project" for us to work on. Most others in her family treat her that way. But I love her, accept her, and appreciate her just like she is a really fabulous, talented, mature, interesting, and special young woman and I will never try, not even wish, that she would change. To approach her otherwise would be totally wrong. Now one other little issue here is how she helped me think about my own faith but that's for another session....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10503063127739315035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119270472100281278.post-72614060526435359382013-03-26T13:55:43.102-04:002013-03-26T13:55:43.102-04:00It's quite a jump from not being able to count...It's quite a jump from not being able to count on Christians to not being able to count on the Christian God. The veteran and highly respected journalist Brian Stuart has traveled to many places of disaster in the world. But, he said on CBC, wherever and whenever I came to these places, thinking I was the first one to be there, the Christians were always ahead of me. Just thought I would mention that.<br />Berthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17589411989533198012noreply@blogger.com