Because I can’t afford to subscribe to Image, I try to read as much of its online-available content as possible, including the Good Letters blog. The new issue of Image includes an essay by Jill Noel Kandel titled “Asking for Salt,” which I read last night. It is a beautiful essay about her son’s struggle with reading. You can read it here.
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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17 July 2008 at 12:11 pm
Matthew
This was beautiful and, as a parent, hard to read. I want my girls to be smart, but I hope I’d be that strong faced with anything similar.
21 July 2008 at 12:17 pm
Jill Kandel
Lindsay: Thank you for the comments on your blog about Asking for Salt!
I’m thankful that Image put it online and opened it up to more readers. It means a lot to me that people read it. Thank you!
Matthew: I don’t feel like a strong person. Most of my journey has been following hard after God and finding that HE is strong in my broken places. He continues to take difficulties and turn them into avenues of grace. As a parent remember this: He goes before you!
Jill K.
22 July 2008 at 7:07 am
Matthew
Jill: Thanks for the encouragement–as you know, all parents need it on a regular basis. It’s a hard thing to realize consistently, isn’t it, that it is God’s strength in us, not our own. And it had better be, because just as Christ-like living is impossible without God’s strength, so too parenting can seem & be that way.
Thanks again; God is using you to inspire more people than you are likely to realize, and that’s a beautiful thing!