I love how carefully Cindy handled my heart in this episode when I asked her the question I had about my daughter. Honestly, in the 180 episodes that we’ve done, it’s that 5 minute or so interaction that we had in this episode that stands out to me almost more than any other part of any other conversation.
I told her that I was worried, that I was nervous that my daughter would grow up and not like God or the Bible or Jesus or Spiritual things and that since all of that is such a huge part of my life … I was afraid I would feel disconnected from her.
Does that make sense?
Like, I want to raise her to think for herself and I want her to forge her own path with God … but what it her own path with God is actually no path at all? And what if she just has no interest in all of the things that matter to me?
I mean.
It feels like a terribly selfish question, but since God and the Bible have been an intricate part of my life since I was in the 4th grade … it matters to me, and it matters deeply.
Cindy likened it to if I liked Star Wars since I was a kid and I bought all of the action figures, played all of the games, collected all of the stuff … but then Jordan grew up and hated Star Wars and thought it was stupid - “what would you do? You’d bond over something else, right?”
And she’s right.
If Jordan’s path with God turns out to be no path at all, if she chooses to take an entirely different path than me.
Well.
Then.
You know what? We can bond over THAT - over her choosing a path that is drastically different than my path or the path that so many say is acceptable, because, really … that’s exactly what I did - I forged my own path.
We can bond over baseball.
Or art.
Or music.
Or animals.
Or … whatever it is that she’s interested in.
It sounds like such an obvious answer to the huge dilemma I was feeling in my heart, but it really put me at ease and I felt like Spirit whispered to me, “whatever she grows up to believe about all the Spiritual things - she’ll have YOU to thank because you and Dana have instilled in her from the beginning that her journey is her journey and you’re here to hold her hand and cheer her on..”
Much love,
Glenn || SUPPORT THE SHOW: PATREON / BUY ME A COFFEE