Nothing ever got raised up when held down tight.

Ann Voskamp writes at A Holy Experience on the occasion of her son's 18th birthday:

...the best way to raise up a kid is to just loosen up. Nothing ever got raised up when held down tight.
the best way to raise up a kid is to just loosen up. Nothing ever got raised up when held down tight.
The Holy Spirit is a fluid grace and the wind is a carrying thing and you have to lean into it and let Him surprise if anything’s going to rise up and fly.

You grew up — and I want to go back and I want to go with you, but I can’t do either.

So you’ll end up heading out.

Heading out down some back roads and long roads and roads I’d never pick for you and I wished I’d lived more backwards, backwards from the knowing that ends really do come.

...Don’t waste a minute of your life on anything less than love.

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