{"id":1248,"date":"2010-06-02T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:10:25","slug":"dont-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/dont-let-go\/","title":{"rendered":"DON\u2019T LET GO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Proverbs 22:6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\">\u201cTrain a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was driving down a local street when I noticed a father standing beside his young daughter, waiting for the school bus to arrive. I felt a sense of foreboding that he was entrusting this precious child into the hands of others who may or may not teach the things that would agree with his beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time I have meditated about the awesome responsibility of parents in training their children. The immediate question arises; \u201cHow do I train my children in the way they should go?\u201d To me the answer is to discover what interests them.<\/p>\n<p>Too many times parents attempt to train their children in what interests them and not in discovering what captivates the child. A parent who is an avid sportsman will find it hard to drag his \u201cbook worm\u201d child to athletic endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard some interpret today\u2019s Scripture this way: \u201cTrain up a child in his own way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.&#8221; Believe me, this is real work! I often wish I could go back and start over again with our own three kids. I am sure that we would go the home school route, but also I would spend far more time listening before I began to develop the training at their level. Forgive me Brenda, Dan and Lori!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n<p>360-570-0074<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:PastorCecil@DailyEVotional.com\">PastorCecil@Daily-E-Votional.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 22:6 \u201cTrain a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.\u201d I was driving down a local street when I noticed a father standing beside his young daughter, waiting for the school bus to arrive. I felt a sense of foreboding that he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}