As a community of parents, I am grateful for the journey we shared this past year. I am blessed by the insights and questions that we presented to each other. The time spent makes us wiser and more ready for the challenges ahead.
As a concluding remark, I would like to share a quote from Ecclesiastes 3:11. Kind Soloman said, " He (God) has made everything beautiful in its time. He (God) has also set eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end...." (NIV)
A time for reflection and a time for action:
We adapt as we listen to our children, observe their development and understand how to be a parent in times like these. We collaborate with our children, with nature, and with God when we act. We are fully aware of the needs and struggles of this challenging task as adaptive parents.
A time to mourn and a time to laugh:
We adapt as we face the losses in life. Our children are experiencing great social changes. Their friends are leaving, they miss face-to-face contact, and they become more sendentary. We as a family need to revive contacts, engage more with each other and bring back joy and fun.
A time to tear down and a time to build:
We all long to have a calmer time in the second half of 2021 and enjoy the new 2022 school year. We hope that school may resume in full, travel bans removed and life return to relative normality. "Faith, Hope and Love" are part of our longing for eternity. Let us be a generation of adaptive parents not only for our kids but for this generation of lost time and experiences. May they grow in physical health, relational closeness, and in favor with God and men.
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