Hebrews-Who Do You Listen To?

I’m in a whole new phase of life, the empty nester. Many have debated this term, if it’s the right way to describe what happens when your a parent who no longer have children at home. I have learned that though the kids aren’t living with you, they need you just as much. What’s really going on is they are learning to fly, they take off and flap there wings, but in reaching out for advice and money, there presence is still really felt. In the teen years, they were doing their developmental work of creating their own identity. As a parent this seems to rip out your heart as you see them experiment with things that you didn’t “raise” them to become. And, you start to see that this transformation begins when they stop listening to you. It’s an odd, and deeply rewarding feeling, that even when they don’t live at home, that they still call for advice. The father away they physically are, the more independent they have to be, the more they real...