From Children to Parents : Learning with the difficulties

In today’s article, it will become clear how God allows His children to develop, even in the midst of difficult times.

And like you, father and mother, should follow the greatest of all the examples in terms of education.

Many times I found myself saying to God: “Deliver me from the desert…” or “That I may not need to go to the desert to learn…” With no doubt, if I remain sensitive to God’s voice and flexible to do His will, He will free me from falling into the “deserts” that would be caused by my lack of obedience. But in regards to the hard times, the difficulties and trials that we all face in the course of life, these are not only necessary but also essential in order to mature and refine the value of our faith.

And God, being the good Father that He is, not only allows me to pass through them, but also sustains me every step of the way, saving, freeing and strengthening me. And why does He allow this? Because only in the “desert heat” I will learn to use “weapons” that will allow me to develop more in my faith, mature as a person and prepare me for the long journey ahead of me. If we look at the most difficult times as opportunities, certainly we will find strength and generate conditions that in normal situations we would never discover; we go to the limit of our surrendering and we leverage our greatest strengths.

In the relationship between parents and children, often what is lacking is the need for parents to realize what criticisms and accusations do not help their children to mature faster or to make them “proper”. In fact, what is often necessary is being close by in difficult times, when they come home from school not realizing how their classmates have acted with them, or are also facing their inner battles, a result of them growing-up, of them becoming adults, but with scant experience in life, which makes everything more difficult and “confusing”.

But these moments are inevitable, like a “desert” that each one of us has to go through to realize that after all our inner nature is not so fragile, but that it really is the total foundation of our structure.

So parents, accompany your children, and be present in the most difficult moments, but do not prevent them from crossing their “deserts” or try crossing it for them …that does not exist! Each one of us must have the time and space to grow, develop, learn, because that is what makes us secure and mature people, truly prepared to face this very difficult world. Otherwise, your children will be unprepared for the reality and harshness of life, of which no one is immune, regardless of ethnicity, religion or position!