Each day my children get older I must protect them less and prepare them more. What is that really like? The preparing is encircled with prayer. Protecting is easier than preparing and praying. Although praying is the most peaceful of the three. Someday I will only be praying, all the protecting and preparing will be done.

What was it like to raise a perfect child that fascinated you? Mary the mother of Jesus must have spent those years in awe and surprise.