As people of faith, we believe that our children were created by a loving God. God created them (and us) from love, for love, to love. Our task as adults is to help our children to realize that their very life is a love gift, and to teach them -- year by year, day by day, hour by hour, -- how to love – how to love God, how to love others, and even how to love themselves. Central to this task will be ...
What you are is God's gift to you; what you become is your gift to God. One of my favorite moments in working with a group of teens looks something like this. I am in the process of explaining what I mean by the “three levels of motivation.” I have already explained the first level, doing whatever I "wanta" do, and the second level, doing whatever I "hafta" do, and I want the group to understand ...