Духовность более, чем какая-либо другая сторона характера, перенимается, а не внушается. Духовный рост подразумевает освоение многих концептуальных понятий. Ребенок должен инкорпорировать ваши отношения с Богом и с ним самим, а не ваши рассуждения.
Your faith - living, concrete, active,sincere - that is what is most important for your child, trying to understand the distant, invisible God and enter into a relationship with Him. You do not have to deliver it from those challenges and quests to the extent that they are proportionate to its level of development. Let your child make sure that a relationship with God like any other relationship, require a certain amount of time and labor, and are sometimes in conflict.
At some point, the child must takeresponsibility for their relationship with God, not blindly imitating you. If you want to make your child's faith remained superficial and meaningless, the right thing to forbid him to doubt the faith instilled him. And if the child himself will sort things out with God, he will sooner or later find their way to God - most likely the other, not the one on which you are going.
This is a critical moment in the development, for the childI should move away from their parents. If the parents of a substitute for God, along with his parents and he would leave God because he feels that he needs to gain independence from God, to become an independent person.
Your duty - all the time to separate yourrelationship with the child from his relationship with God, especially when the child reaches adolescence. Do not hide it from their disappointments, doubts and conflicts with God. Let him see you as another human suffering and searching, not a thinker, come upon all the wisdom of the Lord of the abyss. Thus you save for a child-free area where he himself will be able to seek God; Then, to keep or to have faith, it will not have again become »a little kid.»
A friend of mine a few times from the beginning toend read my little boy, »The Chronicles of Narnia.» He was very concerned about the child's individualization, gaining one's own faith, so he read him the book of Lewis, as she liked the little boy. »I wanted him to stay with God, when ripe to leave me and my way», - explained the father.
Anna, this biblical heroine, sufferinginfertility knew that if God would give her a child, the child will not be entirely her own, it will be a child of God. And she prayed: »Lord, Almighty God of hosts! if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me and not forget thine handmaid, and let thy servant a man child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life »(1 Samuel 1:11) Ask the Lord to him to help you child find their own faith. Yes, it will serve as a basis for your faith, but eventually it will form two of them - God and your child.
