I want to thank Brad Sargent for his response to my May 22 blog.-Never met the guy. Never e-mailed him. Just my blog, his blog, some links in between and some good old fashioned Holy Spirit and the guy sends me the best and the most thoughtful e-mail I've gotten from anyone. Thanks dude. You reminded me how important my job as a Dad is and that I am not the first person to struggle with "understanding how to discern God's will, and learning how to wrestle with being in-between God's sovereign control/providence and our real-and-meaningful human choice." - also, "without Christlike character, man, it sure ain't pursuing anything!"
Anyway, pay brad a visit....he's one of the good guys.