You're listening to Encounter, a simple daily podcast made possible by listeners like

you.

We hope to help you discover sacred moments in the middle of ordinary days.

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Each day, we make deposits into the lives of those we meet along the way, and that is

never more true than in our own families.

Whether a parent or child, we're not merely house guests.

We've been loaned to each other to learn to love and cultivate values that we can pass

along to future generations, but it's not always easy, is it?

No matter the age or era, each phase of family life has its joys, but as your relationship

with your parents or children recently brought you some tribulation, I pray this meditation

from Ephesians chapter 6 will help you find healing.

You will discover the humility to love and the focus to forgive, to model the same tender

loving kindness that your Heavenly Father shows you his child.

So to begin your time of meditation, settle into this holy retreat and surrender your pride

and seed to divine guidance, notice your eyes beginning to move from open, through a soft

gaze to shut, notice your breathing, and start to become mindful of the tender loving

care of the Holy Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Continue in this time of mindfulness by listening and then responding to this passage from Romans

chapter 13, and as I lead us, respond, Lord God, help me to always show kindness.

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