Parenting as a practice?
One of the best understandings of how I’m raising my daughter and caring for children in my community is to embrace parenting as a practice.
That means the work I do in raising children is embodied. relational and communal.
It is holy and integrates many kinds of knowledge and skill and emotion and deliberation.
This week we are talking once again with Kim Knowle-Zeller and Erin Strybis
about their new book. The Beauty of Motherhood: Grace-Filled Devotions for the Early Years releases tomorrow, March 21. We are excited to celebrate with Erin and Kim and to give away one copy of their book! You are already in on that drawing as part of our weekly mailing list. Know someone who would like to connect to our email? Share!
Be sure to watch and share this week’s video conversation led by our own Erin
Robinson Hall. You can catch up with last week’s Episode “Graceful Parenting” here.
Parenting, education, and spiritual and pastoral care for children has been interwoven into my life in every season. And just as Erin and Kim say, there is beauty in these experiences. Not because the work is all glamorous or easy, but because God’s presence and grace is woven through it, even when it is messy and fraught and full of pain and tears and uncertainty.
Where are you seeing beauty, grace and justice with children you know?
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