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The Fight For Life Virtual Class Forum
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Week 5 Discussion
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I just thought I'd add a folder for week 5 discussion. Hope that is okay.
I am listening to week 5 again today. I was distracted when I first listened.
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Tom B 08/09/2011 11:27 |
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Tom B
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08/10/2011 21:23 |
I'm glad I went back to week 5 again. This one really spoke volumes to me.
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Craig from Illinois
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08/10/2011 23:00 |
I've listened twice also for week 5. I've had a much better week with my 4 year old son since. I think the practical advice to play with the him in the things that he wants to do was simple yet impacting. I've often tried to set the agenda for play time and got frustrated when he wouldn't cooperate with my dreams of what a good time looks like. I can see how that can evolve into raising him to be just like me with my tastes and desires as he gets older.
Great chapter!!!
Craig
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Helga
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08/10/2011 23:28 |
Week 5 was once again a good lesson. I realized how important it is to go for the "heart". Like you said Craig, that you wanted to play with your son, "your way". I believe that, not only in our kids, but with every person we deal with, we have to listen to the heart.
It is so important to built a trust between a parent and child and you can only do it, if you go for the heart and we must know that something which is important in LIFE we have to fight for.
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Ray
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08/11/2011 06:01 |
Week 5 raises the bar of our responsibility to take the previous sessions seriously. Like our kids depend on our provision to survive physically, they depend on our covering for protection from the spirit of the age. It's a good thing we are not alone in the fight. Thank you, Jesus.
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Leslie
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08/12/2011 07:06 |
I put off listening to this, ton's of opposition to sit and listen. I have read Wild at Heart and Captivating. I have attended Captivating Retreats and still listening this week has been difficult for me being a single mom. I see God working on behalf of my boys and my daughter. I am standing on God's promise of restoration in their lives to come through the hands of God, their Heavenly Father, because their earthly Father has stolen so much from them. I fight for our new beginning daily. I am grateful to listen in on the talk. And ask God to hold us. And to protect my heart from bitterness and self-pity; I didn't give birth to my boys to have their father walk out on them. And then for them to be left with me, completely unqualified for the job. Praise God He is with me and does things through me despite my weaknesses and mistakes. I ask God to just fill me up, so He can do all He can through me for my boys and their hearts.
This also gives me perspective into my classroom, when I am working with young men that don't have a father in their life. It helps me to have depth in understanding in how to reach them. The next generation is lost without their fathers. It is a fatherless generation.
The conversation with adult children really encouraged me. My oldest son, doesn't speak to his dad, it's been since he was 14 and he is 19 now. I am crying writing this because it's something that so heavy in our lives. His dad will not admit or ask forgiveness. Even today he still stands firm that his decision to leave for another man's wife, was a fine decision and will say to all three of our kids over and over again, that he didn't leave them. He left me. I now understand. They are not validated in their wounds. I am going to ask each of them what my message is to them. And I am going to pray that I will not be defensive or dismiss what they say. This is the next thing I have been asking God for lately....
Everyday the opposition is great. The message of it's too late is something I hear often in my day. I think the hardest place to be is in church. I have been involved in two churches during this season in our lives and both communities really don't know what to do with myself and my kids. Its not anyone's fault, churches are built on assumptions I think, the people come assuming we all have the same things. We don't. My boys don't have a dad to tell them they have what it takes. This doesn't keep me from getting in deep at church, in small groups, in ministry, in friendships. Why? Because I know there are other families out there like me, and how are we going to get through all this if we walk in bitterness and stay arm's length away. We need each other.
I am encouraged and hopeful from this week's Fight For Life. Thanks Brian. I am determined to not get busy, too busy to fight for my kids hearts. No matter how late it feels. It. is. never. too late. Blessings, Leslie
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