care for teens
You knew it wouldn’t be easy to walk alongside teenagers, but you didn’t think it would be quite this hard. Caring for teens is full of contradictions—offering guidance without overpowering, witnessing their struggles without rushing to fix, holding space for their emotions while managing your own.
Others might just see an angsty, distant teenager, but you see the incredible young person they are and are becoming. You see their interior life—their deep longings, their capacity for wonder and for heartbreak. As you navigate the hard conversations, the missed connections, and the worries that keep you up at night, know this: you are not alone.
We’ve curated this support guide filled with resources, language, and encouragement to help you keep showing up—whether you need tools for deeper empathy, ways to build trust, or just a little hope to make it through tomorrow.
Bless you, dear one. Your love, your presence, your willingness to keep showing up—it matters more than you know.
a blessing for parenting teenagers
Bless you who love a teenager.You whose worries about them keep you up at night.wondering if you’re doing it right,if they’re going to be okay,if you over-reacted or under-reacted. If you’re going to make it through tomorrow without losing it.Or how you’re going to have that hard conversation without them shutting down or shutting you…
a blessing for the dad’s
Bless all the dads—those who have carried uson their shoulders,and in their hearts,and in their minds,and all those who have fathered usin some form or fashion. The ones who answer our callsno matter the time of day, who try to fix-it even if they don’t know how. And for those who resort to dad jokes …
Complicated Family
Maybe you are in the first days of starting to name and understand all the complexities of family relationships that have long been a part of your world. Or maybe you are starting to sense the beginnings of healing.
a blessing for your great, big, dumb heart
Love can break your heart. It’s probably in the fine print. Didn’t you click the box at the bottom of the terms and conditions? Blessed are you when your kids are ungrateful, when your parents are unbearable, or when they would have been if they were still around. When you help an unfixable friend, listen much longer than…
a blessing for coming home to love (for the second Sunday of Lent)
Blessed are we who say,God, if you are Love, then I want you.I want loveand all that love can do. God, I want to feel your lovefor me in particular,in the body I have now,in the minutes and hours that mark my days,among the people that are mine to love. I want to feel in…
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