Someday when my children are old enough
to understand the logic that motivates
a parent, I will tell them:

I loved you enough...
to ask where you were going, with whom,
and what time you would be home.
 
I loved you enough...
to insist that you save your money
and buy a bike for yourself even
though we could afford to buy one for you.

I loved you enough...
to be silent and let you discover
that your new best friend was a creep.

I loved you enough...
to make you take a Milky Way back to
the drugstore (with a bite out of it)
and tell the clerk, "I stole this yesterday
and want to pay for it."

I loved you enough...
to stand over you for two hours
while you cleaned your room,
a job that would have taken 15 minutes.

I loved you enough...
to let you see anger, disappointment
and tears in my eyes.
Children must learn that their
parents aren't perfect.

I loved you enough...
to let you assume the responsibility
for your actions even when the penalties
were so harsh they almost broke my heart.
But most of all,

I loved you enough...
to say NO when I knew you would hate me for it.
Those were the most difficult battles of all.
I'm glad I won them, because in the end you won, too.

I loved you enough...
To let you hate me.


Author Unknown

  John 3:16 For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should
 not perish, but have everlasting life.

Psalm 119:48 My hands also will I lift up unto
 thy commandments, which I have loved;
 and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are
 more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Luke 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins,
 which are many, are forgiven;
for she loved much: but to whom little
 is forgiven, the same loveth little.

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