HELICOPTER PARENTING – – – BY GOD ?

We recoil at the description of helicopter parenting.

Perhaps that is why we resist the thought of God literally running every detail of our life.

How can Jesus’ relationship with His Father show how we can relate with our Father ?
The same Father !


Personal, prompting this article–
Psalm 90 is a bit hard, unless you’ve been there, unless you’re there.
God sends stuff.
God sends a boatload.
And more.
And you ask—and I ask,
Why all this ?
Why now, after all these years ?
☆ What I have learned ?☆
What have I not learned ?
There is still hope !
Something I wrote over 15 years ago, still ringing true today:
“What I don’t deserve is the goodness of God graciously sending me consequences for my sin to lead me to repentance.”

That is helicopter parenting by God !

Is anything off-limits for God in our lives, in my life ?
Re-worded—Anything God can’t do in my life ?
Re-worded—Anything I don’t want God to do in my life ?


We may say–
There are some things I have to do, that God might not.
We may say–
God gave me a brain, to figure out some things myself.

Sounds so American, to Americans.

Sounds so arrogant, to God.

I want to get something done today.
And–
God wants to get something done today.

What does it take for the two to match ?
Which one has to move ?

“Have Your own way, Lord.
Have Your own way.
You are the potter;
I am the clay.

Mold me and make me
After Your will,
While I am waiting,
Yielded and still.”

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