I love to water ski.  Around the Heartlight campus in Texas are some of the best lakes in the country to carve the waves (as my kids would say).  But if you’ve never waterskied before, here’s the trick.  Never, ever, ever look at your feet.  If you do, you’ll hit the water at 60 miles an hour, and skip across the surface like a rock.  Instead, find a point in the distance, keep your focus there, and you’ll stay on your feet.

Raising a teenager is a little like water skiing. If you focus on where you are and not where you’re going, you’ll get caught off balance.  In the present you may be discouraged thinking, “How will this ever get better?  When will this turn around?”  Caught up in the troubles of the here and now, you can lose sight of the future.  And what’s the future?  “Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you [or your child, teenager, husband, wife, or any other person in your house] will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

Mark Gregston

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