My daughter has outgrown her bold statements. But now I miss her brutal honesty.
How do we talk with children about difficult realities?
To wrap our children in cotton and insulate them from reality, from the hard and jagged edges of life, is to do them a deep disservice—because Jesus shows up in those hard places.
In a broken world, I can teach my children honesty.
In order to follow Jesus, we must be willing to venture honestly both into our own brokenness and that of our world.