A boy and a girl become a husband and a wife, and suddenly they are a father and a mother, overnight as it were, without anything to ready them for the awesome task of fashioning the destiny of a soul. The awareness of inadequacy frightens the life out of many. One man told a TV audience he panicked. He wanted to run. "Well, yeah," he said. "He's cute, but if you want me, I'll be down at the bar." Down on his knees would be a better place to go to. The One who fashioned the child and gave him to these two people is ready to give the wisdom they know they lack, if only they ask.
Elisabeth Elliot, The Shaping of a Christian Family, "A Mother is a Chalice," p. 125-26
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