Christian Parenting

Hello, what's going on, guys.

We're on week nine, and we are praying for how our kids can specifically know God.

And this week is about faithful friends.

Oh, I love faithful friends.

And I think it's really painful when our kids don't have faithful friends.

And I will, to be honest, my kids have gone through seasons.

And I think this is challenging for all kids, but particularly

girls. There's some drama that goes down in different seasons of their life, and you're like,

well, they ever have loyal friends, and I'll be honest, my kids have been the reason. Like, they've

been complete to their friends, and then people have been rude to them. And so I am grateful

for the season of life that they're in

that they do have some faithful friends that are drawing them to Jesus. But it's a good thing to

pray about because if you're not seeing that, it can be really scary and, you know, really tough

to watch. And I will give you a very practical tip, but my kids have friends that are outside

of their circle of school. And so I

think that can be really important, whether it's friends at church that you prioritize, whether it's

friends from a camp. My kids have friends from their early days of when we lived in Atlanta that

are lifetime friends. So they always have somebody they can kind of reach out to in the times when school can get

traumatic and things like that. I've seen that be really encouraging to my girls over the years.

And we can honestly pray for it, that someone will come their way. And then what I encourage my kids

to be is the friends that they want to find. So if they're struggling, finding friends that they

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