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I think the biggest discipleship tool that we have is our lives.

It's not what we say as much as what we're living.

It's so hard.

It feels impossible, but cling to Jesus, be desperate, surrender your life and then your

kids' lives.

And I think you'll be amazed what God can do.

Welcome to family life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Dave Wilson.

And I'm Ann Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLife Today.com.

This is Family Life today.

Happy Mother's Day.

We have our panel back with us today, and it's going to be fun to dive back in to what it's like to be a mom and some of the struggles and some of the wins.

So let's jump in.

Gwen, do you think it gets easier or harder as your kids get older, that kind of surrender?

It depends on the kid.

Because as kids get older, what we've experienced a lot of times is that as parents, and I'm assuming you would know this, when you have young adults and they're making decisions and you're telling them, oh, you probably don't want to do this. It's not that you're trying to control them. It is one, you're trying to keep them one from harming themselves because when you get in trouble, I get in trouble. Because who are you going to call when you get in trouble? It makes your life harder. Exactly. So it's not, I'm not just trying to protect you. I'm trying to protect me. So I know you think I'm trying to control you. Yeah. And all of that. And so, but at the same time, they've got to try it for themselves. I don't really know what I'm talking about. It's them, not me. You know, I can get past this and it won't happen to me kind of thing. And so those times are hard because you kind of know that there's a ledge over there

and, you know, they're about to walk off this ledge, but they really have to see if it is

an invisible ground that you can, you know, it's solid over there.

It's those types of things. And so that is hard.

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