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You know, I am fairly certain that I am not a product of the opposite of everything my parents tried to train into me. I am pretty sure that they did a good job of passing along their values of loving God, and loving people, and a good, healthy work ethic, and just a general contentment in life.

But…

What I see in my son fascinates me.

He is drawn to all of the stuff we are working so hard to get free from in our lives. The things that we feel are binding us, not allowing us to experience life to the full as Jesus meant for us… these things that we are graciously removing from his life before he gets too deeply involved… these things he wants. He is drawn to them like a magnet.

So, if I really want to help Ian, should I surround him with all the things he must learn to shun and convince him that all the things I really don’t want him to be entangled by are the very things he should seek after? THEN he would by nature be drawn to the opposite, which would be what I wanted in the first place?

I’m very confused. 🙂