Family Week • First Sunday in Family Week •

Most parents try to pay their debts to their children. They try to do the best for their children. Yet what parent would say, “There is no way for me to improve.”?

What do parents owe their children? In writing to the church in Rome Paul said, “Owe no one anything, except to love one another.” Parents can dominate their children’s lives. They can over-indulge their children. But can they love, that is seek the good of a child, too much? That is one debt never paid, the debt of love. What parents owe their children is love.

Parents owe their children love by caring for their physical needs. In a museum in Chicago one wing houses a display of the story of humankind. One of the first scenes depicts a cave family. In the foreground is the hunch-ba…