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12 Things You Want your Kids to Say After They’re Grown

3. 12 things you want your kids to say after they’re grown

4. We sat down to dinner together as a family1
We sat down to dinner together as a family
Psalm 128:3New American Standard Bible (NASB)
3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine [a]Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table.

5. Dad showed his love for Mom through words and actions2
Dad showed his love for Mom through words and actions
Ephesians 5:25-33New American Standard Bible (NASB)
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church [a]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she [b]respects her husband

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Dad told us he loved us
1 John 4:19New American Standard Bible (NASB)
19 We love, because He first loved us.

7. Dad put us before his work or hobbies4
Dad put us before his work or hobbies
1 Timothy 5:8New American Standard Bible (NASB)
8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

8. Dad didn’t discipline when angry5
Dad didn’t discipline when angry
Ephesians 6:4New American Standard Bible (NASB)
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

9. Dad didn’t use work as an excuse for missing important events6
Dad didn’t use work as an excuse for missing important events
Matthew 16:26New American Standard Bible (NASB)
26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

10. He talked when we wanted to talk (especially when we were teenagers)7
He talked when we wanted to talk (especially when we were teenagers)
James 1:19New American Standard Bible (NASB)
19 [a]This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;

11. He took plenty of pictures of us being goofy8
He took plenty of pictures of us being goofy
Ecclesiastes 8:15New American Standard Bible (NASB)
15 So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his [a]toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

12. Dad balanced high expectations with being our greatest cheerleader9
Dad balanced high expectations with being our greatest cheerleader
1 Thessalonians 5:11New American Standard Bible (NASB)
11 Therefore [a]encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

13. He helped us develop our own dreams10
He helped us develop our own dreams
Proverbs 22:6New American Standard Bible (NASB)
6 Train up a child [a]in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

14. We created our own family traditions11
We created our own family traditions
Psalm 127:3-5New American Standard Bible (NASB)
3 Behold, children are a [a]gift of the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward. 4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth. 5 How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them; They will not be ashamed When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

15. He never abdicated his role as family leader12
He never abdicated his role as family leader
Titus 2:7-8New American Standard Bible (NASB)
7 in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with [a]purity in doctrine, dignified, 8 sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

16. Is the Adversary getting in the way of your relationship with your wife and kids?

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