Use the very distractions to remind you
of the priorities.
For one thing, as the story suggests, Enoch was drawn into a
closer relationship with God in the midst of being a father. He was able to use
his family relationships to remind himself about God.
Those who are parents understand this potential dynamic. As
you watch your children grow, and as you feel your own tenderness in your heart
for your children, you can’t help but be in awe of the experience of
unconditional love. You recognize how much you value and love your children, no
matter what they do. And as you see how resilient children can be—even when you
might be mean or unloving toward them at times, they bounce back in love toward
you—their unconditional love melts your own heart. The possibility of understanding
God’s unconditional love increases and grows.
And so it’s possible, little by little, to use our natural
family relationships (or loving, trusting relationships with significant
others) to point our own hearts toward God, to let our own hearts be melted by
the love and grace of God. When we make those deliberate connections between
the earthly and the divine, our loyalty and attention to God can be strengthened
and purified, we become more undivided and single-minded.
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