“Become a Sending Parents”

Here in the mission field, it is 3:10 AM on Saturday.  I woke up at 2:30 AM yesterday and woke up around 1:30 AM today.  After video chatting with my wife, I meditated on God’s word and shared short meditations here and there.  Then, I searched Christian internet websites to see if there were any good Christian articles and immediately found an article called “Become a Sending Parent.”  I would like to share my thoughts here. (https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/become-sending-parent/):

1.      I believe that parents should be sending parents, as the author of this article claims.

2.      If we apply this to my wife and I now, we should send our beloved daughter Yeri to Japan at the end of June.  The reason is that God called her and sent her to Japan as a missionary.

3.      In short, my wife and I are sending Yeri because God sent our beloved daughter Yeri.

4.      Send, but my wife and I must send our beloved daughter Yeri with faith.  If we, as her parents, were to send her far away to Japan for a year, we should not worry and be anxious in advance.  As parents who trust in God, we must entrust her to God and send her with faith.

5.      Then, one day, in God's time, not only Yeri, but also Dillon and Karis will be married in the Lord, and we must send them away.

6.      For example, my beloved son Dillon is probably going to get married next year, and my wife and I need to let him go with faith.  When he marries his girlfriend next year, we need to let him go not only physically (he has been living in his own house for several years now) but also emotionally and mentally.  The way to do that is for my wife and I to trust in God and give Dillon faith.

7.      The youngest, Karis, also started to live physically apart from us as she went to college, just like her older brother Dillon and older sister Yeri.  Although we sent our three children to college, we sent them off in faith as their parents.  And Karis will also go on a one-week mission trip in July.  Therefore, my wife and I plan to send Karis on a mission trip in faith as well.

8.      As far as I can remember, Dillon, Yeri, and Karis were the first to leave us when they were teenagers.  The reason was that they were going through growing pains and leaving us.  I think that was natural and completely normal.  If my wife and I had not let them go slowly and naturally as their parents back then, and had still treated them as our babies or little elementary children, we would have kept them in our arms. I don’t think that is good parenting.

9.      As the author of this article said, since God the Father sent His only begotten Son Jesus to this sinful world, I think that our parents should also become parents who send their children with faith.

10.   Now, in September, my beloved son Dillon will probably go to seminary, so my wife and I plan to send him to seminary with faith.  Now, at the end of June, my wife and I plan to send our beloved daughter Yeri far away to Japan.  Now, in July, my wife and I plan to send our youngest daughter Karis on a one-week mission trip with faith.  Then, when the three children each get married in God’s time, my wife and I will send them away with faith.  Then, if it is God’s will, the three children will send me and my wife (parents) away to heaven with faith! Haha.