Children

"We gaze at the future through the window of our children; how we shape them shapes the future. And they will be shaped, by the world if not by us. Each small face harbors the same question, unanswered by self-help books and talk shows. . . . Who am I and why am I here?"

Sallie Tisdale, "Grace," in God Is Love: Essays from Portland Magazine.



I just got through reading this a couple minutes ago in the most recent edition of Christianity Today (p. 62), and it brought me to tears as the truth of it settled into my mind and trickled down into my heart. God help us.