Comments on: Loving on Purpose: Parenting and So Much More #2

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:29:25 +0000

Took me a while to decide to listen but glad I did, you really shared the ‘why behind the what of parenting’, thank you. I had done a parenting course of love & logic at church and it really just amounted to new tools to manipulate my kids and I got stuck there. So, with new light on my path I can walk confidently that Father loving & living in me is the ground work of becoming a more godly parent. Ah, that is good news.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:10:16 +0000

For clarity, Joni, it was a mother in South Carolina that originally talked about this book. My daughter bought it and I ended up reading hers before she did. Glad you’re enjoying the book…

By: Joni M.

Joni M. — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:38:24 +0000

I bought this book as soon as it appeared on Waynes’ Lifestreams blog and he had not even finished it but said his daughter Julie had recommended it to him. I was so grateful that Julie has turned us all onto this book. I think the title should be Loving People on Purpose because I have found myself giving and recommending this to many people who come to me with “relational issues”. I discovered Love and Logic folks when our oldest son was 3, he is 25 now, through our local county extension guidance center. The truth in this book; that this is the picture of our vertical heavenly relationship, is why it is true for all of our lateral relationships. I love the intelligence behind Danny’s definition of power. Page 82, “It’s important that we understand that the HolySpirit is the true spirit of power. Anger and violence are false powers that we grab onto when we are controlled by fear.” If we could just get this into our brains and our hearts it could be so transforming. Changing us and changing how we relate to all God’s children.