Watching our daughter Georgia turn 20 has made me feel a little old!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not in a bad way. Just in that “where did the time go” kind of way. One minute she needed us for everything, and now she\u2019s stepping into adulthood, making real decisions, carrying real responsibility. And my wife and I find ourselves in this strange new season of parenting where we don\u2019t have nearly as much control as we used to. I’m making myself laugh thinking we ever had control \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Georgia was little, we could fix things. We could step in and protect her. Now? A lot of what we do is praying and waiting. Listening more than talking. Trusting more than directing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And if I\u2019m being honest, that can make you feel a little helpless as a parent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I\u2019m learning that helpless doesn\u2019t mean hopeless<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n God never promised we\u2019d have all the answers. What He did promise is that He\u2019d be faithful. And the older Georgia gets, the more I realize something important: God has always been parenting her alongside us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parenting kids in their 20s isn\u2019t about telling them what to do anymore. It\u2019s about pointing them back to who God is. It\u2019s about being steady when life feels shaky. It\u2019s about trusting that even when we don\u2019t see the whole picture, God does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sure, I wish I could protect Georgia from every mistake, every heartbreak, every hard lesson. But that was never my job. My job was to love her, pray<\/a> for her, and trust God with the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And maybe feeling old as a parent is really just a reminder of how much God has already carried us through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And honestly? That gives me peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Your faithfulness extends to every generation, Chad Mitchell God never promised we\u2019d have all the answers. What He did promise is that He\u2019d be faithful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24,28,41],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-encouragement","tag-inspiration","tag-parenting"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 13:47:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
as enduring as the earth you created.” – Psalm 119:90<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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