A family is a learning community
“Our children are given to us for a time to cherish, to protect, to nurture, and then to salute as they go their separate ways. They too have the light of God within, and a family should be a learning community in which children not only learn skills and values from parents, but in which adults learn new ways of experiencing things and seeing things through young eyes. From their birth on, let us cultivate the habit of dialogue and receptive listening. We should respect their right to grow into their own wholeness, not just the wholeness we may wish for them.”
— Elizabeth Watson, 1980
Quaker feminist theologian
Today’s Invitation
Cultivate the habit of dialogue and receptive listening.
This Week’s Query
When has your spirituality helped you in your relationship with a child?
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