Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience.

Ideally, as parents we'd have unlimited energy, the ability to manage tricky emotions like fear and anger, vast stores of wisdom to answer complicated but important questions, love that never grows tired, patience that never ends... Every parent would like to have all of these, but God alone possesses them fully. Parenting reminded me of what I lacked more than it ever made me feel equipped. But there's a spiritual purpose in that!

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter

We bring nothing to God, and He gives us everything.

Having children made me confront my true fears and trust in God many times over in a much more intensified manner.

Parenting changed for me when I finally realized it's not about being a perfect parent trying to raise perfect kids, but rather, family life is a collection of sinners slowly growing together toward Jesus Christ as we rub shoulders, yield to his grace, ask for forgiveness and offer forgiveness, and are shaped accordingly.