Every week, Christian writers across the internet join together to write for five minutes about a one-word prompt and share our responses with each other. This is my second week participating.
This week’s word is: Adapt
Adapt or Die is the title of a book about leadership principals written by former US Army General Rick Lynch.
It would also be a fabulous title for a book about parenting.
From the moment you go from zero kids to being responsible for a newborn to the moment they are grown, getting married, and having kids of their own (or so I’ve heard), you’re hanging on tight and trying to keep up with all the developmental changes their seasons of life are throwing at you.
Just when you’ve got them napping three times a day, they start to drop one of their naps…then the other…and then stop napping altogether, leaving you to ADAPT OR DIE,
When you’ve parented your way out of one behavioral struggle, they decide to start testing the boundaries in another way, leaving you to regroup the troops, formulate new battle plans and ADAPT OR DIE
In these seasons of rapidly-changing life, I am so glad I’ve got a God who is unchanging. The same yesterday, today, and always. Because if I didn’t have an anchor in this storm a safe harbor to run to as the winds and waves of ADAPT OR DIE are swirling around me, I would lose my ever-loving mind.
Father, thank You for Your unchanging grace and mercy, both for me and for my kids. Thank You that Your mercies are new every morning, that Your truth is ALWAYS true, and that as life changes us around us, Your love and Your plan for us can be our foundation and our solid rock. Amen.
(And the timer went off thirty seconds ago, but I had to finish that prayers.)
See you next week!
Oh Tori, this is true, true, true! Adapt or Die is a perfect mantra for parenting. I’m parenting adult children and in some ways it’s more applicable than ever! I loved your post and the prayer at the end (good idea finishing it!😊) Cindy your #fmf neighbor