One fabulous Thinker

No one really prepares you for raising children because parenting isn't something you simply follow; it's something you grow through. No book can fully prepare you for the specific, wild, beautiful heart of your child. For the son who once couldn't let you go, and now won't let you kiss him in public anymore, for the one who longs so deeply for independence that he's figured out exactly how to make you feel unnecessary. But I've also learned something else. What is not scarce is information. What is scarce is honesty, the willingness to look inward while you are raising them. To allow parenting to refine you just as much as it shapes them. Motherhood was never part of my plan. I didn't want it. And then God, quietly and completely, changed my heart. That is the miracle I'm talking about, not just the pregnancy, but the transformation that came before it. Raising boys has been the most revealing, stretching, and sanctifying work I have ever known....