Serving Bread

I love Layla’s age/stage. I am watching her learn new things everyday as she grows into a little girl. And Christmas is very fun with a little one in the midst–it’s fun to see her be loved by the rest of the family. When Layla was first born, wise people kept telling me, “enjoy every minute because they are at this age only once”. I did try to enjoy every minute but not necessarily because of her age. Over this break, however, I realized that how I relate to her as a father will shift over the years. She will soon be a young girl, a teenager, and eventually an adult.

As I reflected on my relationship with Layla, I realized that over the course of our lives (assuming Layla and I live long, healthy lives), we will relate to one another as adults. For the past ten years, I have been learning how to relate with my parents as adults. How do we prepare for those adult years? I’m not sure. But for most of us, we have to learn how to relate with our parents and children as adults because they will take up the majority of our time spent together.

These toddler years are fun, but the way that God orchestrates it, parent-child relationships are mostly spent in the adult years. This would have implications on how we read passages such as “honor/obey your parents”, but more importantly it focuses me to have to stay on the learning curve, both as a child and as a parent.

There will come a day where Layla will no longer allow me to slobber her with kisses, but I am hoping and believing that the upcoming days will be as satisfying as these days now.

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