Comments on: Making Peace with Parents http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/05/22/making-peace-with-parents/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:33:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kathi Armstrong http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/05/22/making-peace-with-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Kathi Armstrong Mon, 26 May 2008 13:32:25 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/05/22/making-peace-with-parents/#comment-139 Hi Andrea, This is great, and something even better taught by a younger woman than an older one! Coming from a home with an atheistic father and agnostic mother, I had little appreciation for the rejection they would feel when I chose to follow Christ. In fact, looking back, I think they did a pretty amazing job of tolerating my enthusiastic appeals to them to believe also. No amount of arguments from such sources as Evidence that Demands a Verdict, etc. made any apparent impact on them at all, and in fact seemed only to distance them more. I finally reached the conviction that my true resources were prayer and love. Mom got saved in her seventies and Dad shortly before he died at 89, more than forty years after my own conversion. I love your advice to young moms; if they can set aside their own hurts and needs and just unselfishly honor and love their parents, most of the time God will intervene and bring peace. Even if He doesn't answer quickly, our obedience will please Him, and He is our true Father! Hi Andrea,

This is great, and something even better taught by a younger woman than an older one! Coming from a home with an atheistic father and agnostic mother, I had little appreciation for the rejection they would feel when I chose to follow Christ. In fact, looking back, I think they did a pretty amazing job of tolerating my enthusiastic appeals to them to believe also.

No amount of arguments from such sources as Evidence that Demands a Verdict, etc. made any apparent impact on them at all, and in fact seemed only to distance them more. I finally reached the conviction that my true resources were prayer and love. Mom got saved in her seventies and Dad shortly before he died at 89, more than forty years after my own conversion.

I love your advice to young moms; if they can set aside their own hurts and needs and just unselfishly honor and love their parents, most of the time God will intervene and bring peace. Even if He doesn’t answer quickly, our obedience will please Him, and He is our true Father!

]]> By: Sammybunny http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/05/22/making-peace-with-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Sammybunny Fri, 23 May 2008 12:31:33 +0000 http://parunak.com/pursuingtitus2/2008/05/22/making-peace-with-parents/#comment-132 That is such a BEAUTIFUL post, Mrs. Parunak! Thank you so much for it! I myself have had many clashes with my parents over the years. Fewer now that I have become an adult but there were many when I was younger about my convictions being different from theirs. I have found all the you posted to be true in my life--although it is still difficult to practice a gentle and quiet spirit in the face of opposition (especially when you grew up as a little defensive warrior). Thank you again, this post has greatly blessed me and served as a reminder about what it means to honor one's father and mother amidst disagreements. :o) That is such a BEAUTIFUL post, Mrs. Parunak! Thank you so much for it! I myself have had many clashes with my parents over the years. Fewer now that I have become an adult but there were many when I was younger about my convictions being different from theirs. I have found all the you posted to be true in my life–although it is still difficult to practice a gentle and quiet spirit in the face of opposition (especially when you grew up as a little defensive warrior). Thank you again, this post has greatly blessed me and served as a reminder about what it means to honor one’s father and mother amidst disagreements. :o )

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