PARENTING POTENTIALITY
When a boy or girl thrust their small hand in yours, it may be smeared with chocolate ice cream, or grimy from petting a dog, and there may be a wart under the right thumb and a bandage on the little finger. But the most important thing about their hands is that they are the hands of the future. These are the hands that someday may hold a Bible or a Colt revolver; they may play the church piano or spin a gambling wheel; they may gently dress a leper’s wound or tremble wretchedly uncontrolled by an alcoholic mind. But right now the hand is in yours. It asks for help and guidance. It represents a full-fledged personality in miniature, to be respected as a separate individual whose day-by-day growth into mature Christian adulthood is YOUR responsibility.
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