You Are A Father or Mother
If you could lead a campaign to declare 1 fast food restaurant as the ultimate fast food restaurant, which one would you pick? For the purposes of this discussion, any restaurant with a drive-thru is considered to be “fast food.”
What stood out to you most from the video message?
What’s your reaction to the idea that you can be a parent, whether or not you have biological kids?
Where do you see the identity of father or mother showing up in your life?
What’s a success you’ve had with one of your kids (biological or otherwise)? What’s a mistake you’ve made?
What difficulties or baggage from your past are you carrying into your life as a parent today? Nothing you share here is too big or too small.
Think of a person you feel responsibility for. What’s one step you can take to be a father or mother for them this week?
Let’s end with prayer. You can say something like, “God, thank you so much for adopting us as your children. Thank you for giving us a seat at your table. Give us the faith to accept your gift, and extend that same gift to the people around us. Amen.”
Even if we do not have children, we are all designed to nurture something as a father/mother. Unlocking the father/mother element of our identity could be the key to helping us discover the compassionate, strong protector we were made to be.