You know if you're honest there are times when you feel inadequate as a parent and you know we try so hard but we so rarely get it really really right

Those moments when we kind of swing and miss, they leave us

feeling guilty and ashamed. That's also, however, the very time when God wants to

meet with us and give us some hope. I'm John Fuller with Dr. Danny Werta. He's our

vice president of parenting here at Focus on the Family and we're gonna hear a

conversation now that Jim Daly and I had with parenting coach Mike Berry.

If you're feeling like you've blown it one too many time as a mom or a dad,

this is going to be encouraging to you.

You know, Mike, so often we can go through these discussions and not get God's perspective.

And I don't want to miss that in this case.

You know, God created Adam and Eve.

He obviously was the perfect parent parent but he had imperfect children totally and I

often think about that it is a little humorous and maybe God did it that way so that

we might relax a little bit. But in that context, what is God's view in the parenting role?

How do you think he sees this? What does he want from us as sober-minded thinking followers of Christ?

What is he saying to our heart about being a parent?

You know, I had a person say to us a couple of, to me a couple many years ago you know when I was

struggling as a young parent you know well look at the Bible for your example and

my response was really because the families in the Bible were a mess you know if you think about the

parents in the Bible it's like they were broken mistake-ridden human beings But what I love about the story of Noah and Abraham and

Mary and Joseph and all of these parents we see that we now refer to as the pillars of faith, David, you know, all of them is that

God still used them in powerful ways even in the midst of their mistakes.

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