Hi, friend. I'm so grateful you've joined me on the Jesus Over Everything show. If you haven't heard the news, we have gone retro this summer. For the months of June and July, we are featuring our five word prayers daily. The show, this show started as, and so many of you love so much, five-minute podcast shows on topics of all kinds, the short inspiration you need for every day of the week.

So enjoy these shows, keep listening all summer, and see you right here back in August for a

powerful season six.

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. Continuing on in our parenting month, and in particular this week of the

real life, midy-gritty, hard parenting stuff. Hard on the kids, too, by the way. We're talking

dating and heartbreak today. Some of you

single 20-somethings may also want to listen in because it's a current situation for you too. Oh goodness,

it's so hard to have relationships and get our heartbroken, isn't it? And these kids maneuvering all

this, we need Jesus help. So let's talk about it in just a minute.

So I need to make this disclaimer right off the top, and that is that my kids are not big daters. As a matter of fact, they haven't really dated much at all, which I think on one hand

is a good thing in the sense that I think our culture is far too consumed with kids being in a

relationship at an early age. It's just too much too soon, in my opinion. And quite honestly,

parents, we're a factor in this. We encourage these dating relationships with middle school kids

and even elementary school kids. It blows my mind. And I just think it's another symptom of how we are

following the trends of society and making our kids grow up too quick. I'm not a fan. But I do

understand that we have natural attractions to each other, even at young ages. And there's nothing

wrong with that. I also think as kids get into upper high school and such,

it's good to go out some with each other to get a sense for what we want and what we don't want

and in a mate later on if we end up getting married, discover what we're looking for,

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