If you want to live a life free of undue pressure and guilt, pray about making these declarations to yourself:
I’m not trying to impress anybody.
I’m not trying to live up to anybody else’s expectations.
I’m not going to take on false responsibility.
If it’s not really my responsibility, I’m not going to feel responsible for it.
I’m not going to feel pressured by somebody else to do something that I don’t want to do.
I won’t try to shame or pressure my kids to do something just because I would like for them to do it when they reach the age that they can decide for themselves what they will do. This age is upper teens, when they start driving and are past the age of accountability.
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
