Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

So we're talking parenting all month on the show, and I'm hoping there will be a little bit for everyone on here this month. For the parents of babies, toddlers, teens, and even

young adults, it's hard to hit all the groups, but I'm sure going to try. And even my single

friends who so faithfully listen, if you're still here knowing the topic, I'd love for you to

stick around and file these for one day if you and God choose you to parent. And two, I pray

these shows will give us all some insight into who we are, how God parents us,

and some deeper insights into our spiritual lives, always my goal on here on these short shows.

This week is our What to Do When Week, and up today I want to talk about this idea of

sort of the black sheep of the family, maybe kind of the labels we put on our kids, and most of all,

what to do when our heart is broken by the choices of our children.

And by the way, this happens sooner than we might think.

I don't remember all the exact moments the realization hit me.

My kids would break my heart.

But I do remember one specifically that I honestly can't talk about on the show in detail because one of the things I

always want to do is honor my family with my social media and this show and while I don't ever

want to be cryptic because that's annoying I know and generally not helpful it's more important

for me to honor the privacy in our home,

especially when the exact instance doesn't matter for the point, which is the case here.

But one of my kids was an older elementary school age and they did something that really

kind of took me a back. And I remember thinking, these kids can really break my heart. They have that

ability. They can make choices I don't want them to make.

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