Our 14-year old Maya was confirmed this past weekend, a significant rite of passage in our Lutheran Christian tradition, the time when you claim your baptismal promise (made for you as an infant) as your own.\u00a0 It was another moment for Abigail and me how much parenting our children is more and more about letting go.\u00a0 I return to this beautiful poem by Kahlil Gibran to understand how and why.<\/p>\n
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On Children<\/strong> Your children are not your children. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, You are the bows from which your children Our 14-year old Maya was confirmed this past weekend, a significant rite of passage in our Lutheran Christian tradition, the time when you claim your baptismal promise (made for you as an infant) as your own.\u00a0 It was another moment for Abigail and me how much parenting our children is more and more about letting …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51560,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51559\/revisions\/51560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a0Kahlil Gibran<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThey are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
\nThey come through you but not from you,
\nAnd though they are with you yet they belong not to you.<\/p>\n
\nFor they have their own thoughts.
\nYou may house their bodies but not their souls,
\nFor their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
\nwhich you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
\nYou may strive to be like them,
\nbut seek not to make them like you.
\nFor life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.<\/p>\n
\nas living arrows are sent forth.
\nThe archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
\nand He bends you with His might
\nthat His arrows may go swift and far.
\nLet your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
\nFor even as He loves the arrow that flies,
\nso He loves also the bow that is stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"