By his sophomore year in college, I realized that music was his calling, in the way that ministry was mine. And though I could see that making a living might be difficult as a musician, that making a life was equally important. Through music he has learned so much more than the notes and the melody, but about discipline, group dynamics, psychology, business, culture.
All this is to say that parenting, for me, has also been a profound spiritually journey, one that stretched me to grow beyond my own blind spots and to trust that the spirit often knew what I did not. At first I saw myself as my son’s teacher, then only his coach and now mostly his cheerleader. Soren Kierkegaard says that ” life must be lived forward but can only be understood backward.” With joy, I now look back and praise the Creator for all that has unfolded in his life that brought him to this moment.
Grace and peace to you,