“love your parents”

Children need to experience love and grace from their parents. Not showing beauty can lead children to put up walls and lie. Because they living in not only fear of the consequences but fear of losing love and having a damaged reputation. But if love and dignity are given unconditionally children will learn to look to God rather than making their reputations an idol. By showing agility parents provide a safe environment for conversations conducive to spiritual growth and maturity.
That is the education of the mind and heart: being impacted by His ease and learning to trust that He is in control promotes an unending desire to learn and understand without fear of choosing the wrong path and most importantly it grows the capacity to love unconditionally.
I learned that all of my mistakes and all of the uncertainties I faced in my short life have been shown to be for the good of His glory. Through the style and love given by my family my shortcomings became an opportunity for me to focus on God and allow him to work in and through me.

I need to make more time to spend with my parents. I need to make it a priority to spend quality time with them.  I need to make sure I get their advice now on the things I should know for the future so I do not waste my chance to get it while they are still both here with me.  I need to ask them to tell me more stories about their own life and all the lessons they have learned that might someday be helpful to me.  I need to make sure I let them know how much I love them and what they mean to me while they are still here to hear it in person.