Parenting & Growth

Relationships between people and their parents seem to founder when roles do not grow, when the dependence and giving that characterized its early stages do not give way to a mutuality that acknowledges distinctions while fostering the growth of both parties. It is a process that ought also apply to our relationship with God, allowing each the completeness of ourselves and a mutuality built no longer on need but on a desire to share. There is no freedom in need, no choice about union if without it one may be harmed. It is the child's relationship to parent, not that of an adult.