Our children are not our possessions; they belong to God. We are merely stewards of their tender souls for a short time—basically, for twenty years. We are wise if we give them back to God when He gives them to us. Then we will be able to enjoy them as ours in a way that’s otherwise impossible. A. W. Tozer once wrote, “Everything in life which we commit to God is really safe. And everything which we refuse to commit to Him is never safe.”3 If we enter parenthood realizing that God has given us a