To those of you that are parents what I know about you is that you want to give your children the very best. Is that true?

Raise your hands if it's true online. You can type in the comments section. I want to give my kids the very best we want to give

our kids the best and in fact scripture even tells us that we want to when Jesus

said this in Matthew 7 and 11 he said you if you're sinful people even those of us

we've all fallen short we've all sinned and yet we know how to give good gifts to our children,

so how much more will our Heavenly Father

give good gifts to those who ask him?

We all want to give the very best to our kids. We have really, really good intentions and then we get tired.

How many do you know what I'm talking about?

It's really, really difficult parenting has always

been difficult and in today's culture it's increasingly difficult and so we try to

do the right things and then we get worn out.

It's even in the smallest things, for example, when you have multiple kids, it's amazing how you lower

your standards over time.

Like when we had our first child and we gave Katie a pacifier, if the pacifier ever fell in the ground,

we would like boil that thing, sterilize it before giving it back to her.

Then Mandy came along and we would just like run it under the faucet and plop it back in her mouth.

And then when Anna came along, I would just put it in my mouth and then put it back into hers.

Then Sam came along and we would just let the dog lick it clean.

Who knows what I'm talking about?

And then put it back in their mouth.

We got to our fifth kid, you wonder what we did with the fifth kid,

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