PARENTS IN CHARGE

Parents, you are in charge. You are obligated as primary educators of your children, especially in matters of revealing God's law and faith. You form the conscience of your children. You instill discipline, curiosity and a hunger for learning.
Parenthood comes with responsibilities and privileges, joys and duties, but the greatest part is the partnership with the LORD God, "Called to give life, spouses share in the creative power and fatherhood of God" (Ephesians 3: 14; Matthew 23: 9)
"The home is the natural environment for initiating a human being in solidarity and communal responsibilities. Parents should teach children to avoid the compromising and degrading influences which threaten human societies" (Catechism of the Catholic Church # 2224).

Be assured, Latch Key programs, the school, the peer group, the media and entertainment industry will fill in where parents do not. Parents fill their children with Christian standards and expectations by being filled with the Holy Spirit to lead, teach, comfort, guide and protect the family -- creating the next generation of Christians. Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find, says Sacred Scripture.  
Natural law is written on the human heart AND nature itself proves the wonders of Our Creator God. Through reason and faith  we learn who we are to one another and our Father; we learn the value of life, how some mysteries are meant to remain wondrous, and how important we are merely by being called into existence. We are here. We will never die. Therein, we are met with the importance of decision, in each day and especially for parents raising a family.  

                        We dare not compromise. 
                       His Ways are not our ways. (Isaiah 55: 8)
                      He will teach us His Ways (Isaiah 2:3)
                     He will direct our ways (Isaiah 45: 13

"These are my orders: Listen to my voice, then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Follow right to the end the way that I mark out for you,
and you will prosper" (Jeremiah 7: 23)

Be ye not ignorant of the fullness of Truth -- God's Wonders, His Word, His Will and His Ways because we have to get through time and into our Eternal Inheritance.  Parents are asked to give their children a good start in life. When we study the Word of God, we obtain every advantage in our assignments. We will die if we are ignorant of the battle that wages against all that is holy, against all innocence. Call it all WORK!

ENCOURAGING SCRIPTURE:

"Call to me, says the LORD, and I will answer; I will tell you things great beyond reach of your knowledge. For surely, I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you." (Jeremiah 33: 3)

We are fallen and can make mistakes, believing what we might prefer. Be ye careful.  

"Do not trust every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world" (1 John 4: 1)

These are the days of confusion alongside opulence, dividing the rich and the poor in body, heart, mind and spirit.  We are busy, misled, distracted and preoccupied with our preferences.  Therein, we must beware, be awakened to discern every issue, every presentation, even sometimes from the pew. Wisdom, knowledge and understanding comes to those who ask the LORD: "But if any of you is wanting in wisdom, let him ask it of God, who gives abundantly to all men, and does not reproach; and it will be given to him: James 1: 5). 

Together we journey, we seek and find. Let us become all that God intended for us -- from the beginning. 

"...make every effort to undergird your virtue with faith, your discernment with virtue, and your self-control with discernment; this self-control, in turn, should lead to perseverance, and perseverance to piety, and piety to care for your brother, and care for your brothers, to love"  (2 Peter 1: 5-7).