Met a man today who shared with me his struggles with his son (16yrs old). He told me that he has raised his son alone from the age of 4 and now that he is a teenager he doesn’t know how to reach him.

He stated that though he loved his son he had no idea how to tell him. As he vented and unloaded all he was thinking and feeling I went into counselling mode.

I began to share with this stranger the importance of expressing love to his son. Children yearn for affection and attention from their parents even when they act outside of what we expect from them.

Anger doesn’t solve any situation and it certainly doesn’t lead to building, instead it takes one away from the path of so called goodness. As parents I told the stranger we have to learn how to get rid of the  idea that if they our ( seed) does not do as we say then they cannot be part of us but in essence what we must do is learn how to love them past their flaws.

Parenting isn’t easy at all, far from it actually but as daily steps are taken to love them we help in creating a safe space for them that will help them as they go through their own internal struggles.

As I prepared to walk away to go home to my own children I thought about the conversation and hoped that by God placing me in the path of this stranger he was given some relief and he will indeed approach this from a different angle when dealing with his Future

Jah Bless