Parenting

I ran across these words today in my devotion, and they are both a challenge and an encouragement.  Thomas Fuller, who lived between 1601 and 1661, penned an insightful thought.  As he reflected on the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1, he wrote, Lord, I find the genealogy of my Saviour strangely checkered with four remarkable changes in four intermediate generations: Roboam begat Abia; that is a bad father begat a bad son. Abia begat Asa; that is a bad…