letting go...

I started reading Kris' Wild at Heart book last night. Not because I thought it applied to me, but because I like to be well read. Little did I know, it did apply to me! A chapter talks about little boys leaving their mothers and clinging to their fathers as a right of passage almost, so their fathers can teach them the masculine things that God has put in their hearts to know. How, if the father don't step in at this crutial time and the mothers don't let go as well, you can really mold your boys into things they will battle within themselves for well into their adult years...Wow. The thing is, is that I've been feeling for a couple of weeks now that Caed was clinging to Kris way more than me-which is weird because it's always been Mom and Caed. Now I know that this is the stage he is starting to emerge into-Kris will be imparting things to him that I cannot and Caed will be recieving things from Kris that will mold and shape the man he will become. Scary yet liberating at the same time, knowing that we have the opportunity to do the best we can do and identify it as it is happening. So, to the mom's of little boys- I highly recommend that you read the Wild at Heart book! There is a lot of great information for mom's in how to raise little men in the image of God.