Scripture of the Day:
Jeremiah 31:16-17 (NLT)
16 But now this is what the Lord says: “Do not weep any longer, for I will reward you,” says the Lord.
“Your children will come back to you from the distant land of the enemy. 17 There is hope for your future,” says the Lord. “Your children will come again to their own land.”
Hope Discovery of the Day:
Failure is not the end – it is only a detour in the path of life.
We’ve all been there. That moment when your kid does something that grieves your heart. And it gets worse in the day of social media . . . their actions might reverberate across the internet. But there is hope for parents when our children fail.
Measuring the failure
We tend to want to avoid failure, right? Who wants to aim to fail? Yet sometimes we can go through seasons in this life where we just keep failing and our outlook can grow dismal. But sometimes we also might be calling something a failure that isn’t.
So it is with our children. They will have their moments of victory and the lesser celebrated moments, too. And sometimes we might classify something as a failure that could be a turning point in the life of our children . . .
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