Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and 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, parents, this month is dedicated to you. It's sort of a parenting theme month on the show, and this fresh week is all about the spiritual side of things.

I suspect, and by the way, what I hear from you, is that the spiritual lives of our kids,

raising them to grow up and love Jesus, is the most important thing in our lives.

I certainly hope that's the truth because their greatest desire is going to drive everything else.

If they live for themselves, it will be a very miserable, self-centered life.

But if they live for Jesus, it will be the most amazing, fulfilling life.

And I think as parents, we want to know how to help them get there.

Well, today's show is going to cover what I believe to

be the absolute key in this, really, truly. So stick around to hear more. I hear a lot of parents

say this about their kids. I just want them to be happy. And I get this because, let me tell you,

there is nothing that brings us more joy as

parents than to see our kids being happy and fulfilled. On the other side of that, there's not much

worse than seeing our kids unhappy or miserable. When my oldest son went off to college his

freshman year, he was pretty unhappy for a time. And quite honestly, he wanted to come home really after the first few weeks, but especially

at the Christmas break after that first semester, which is I know familiar to a lot of parents

who have sent their kids off their freshman year of college.

It's just a rough time, kind of.

And everything within me wanted to let him come home after that. I wanted him to be happy.

But more of me and certainly more of my husband, because I find that dads are a little bit better about

this, wanted him to learn and grow and become stronger in the life lesson of sticking to something,

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