A matter of fervent prayer since the birth of our first child, is that God would pour out His grace and equip us to train our sons and daughters to be best friends. We thank God for every little victory, realizing the mark is ever before us, and knowing how much we need God’s grace to communicate the importance to our little ones that brothers and sisters enjoy an uncommon love and unity.

We have learned, and continue to learn, from wise mentors the importance that brothers and sisters spend large amounts of time with each other, that they learn to work together daily, and that boys learn their masculine duties toward their sisters and that sisters learn their feminine duties toward their brothers. Though we had a house with a hundred rooms, we would still want all the boys in one room and all the girls in another. Proximity and time are two indispensable elements when building teamwork and unity.

We have learned, and continue to learn, about the importance of daily exhortations and admonitions. Hundreds of times, our little ones have been warned against the sins of Cain and Abel, and of Jacob and Esau. Every day is a new battle, and every battle is a new opportunity. The amount of effort to cultivate true oneness between brothers and sisters is simply enormous, but at the end of the day, the fruit of the labor is deliciously sweet and the blessing of God’s gracious favor even more so.

Oh Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. Pour out your favor on the fathers and mothers who dearly and desperately seek the hearts of their little ones.