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Child Rearing as Cross Bearing

By: Thomas F. Booher Photo By: Jocelyn Booher I do not want to give anyone the impression that raising children in the Lord is an easy thing. It's a hard thing. It's fulfilling the call to take up your cross and follow Christ. It is entering into suffering for the sake of His Kingdom. It is bearing the curse of sin, because there is pain in child bearing, and even covenant children are wicked sinners.  This past year has been the hardest for me personally, and for my wife. We left all friends and family to come to a place we did not know. Then our first child, Peter, was born two months later. My sin and weaknesses became clearer against the contrast of being a father, husband, provider, and seminary student all at once. How do you handle everything when you do not have family to help you? How do you stay sane and patient with your child? When do you sleep when the baby cries all night? How do you study when you hear his screams and your wife's cries as she t