Like everyone else, finding the right words has been hard. So, if it’s challenging for us, it must be even harder for these 18-23-year-olds. As parents, this is the life aspect for which we do our best to prepare our children. Please pray for these young men as they navigate through all the emotions and prepare to make one of the toughest decisions of their young lives.
The days of telling them exactly what to do are gone. Now, our parenting roles mostly involve just being there for them—listening, guiding, and, most of all, praying. It’s never been about money; it's always been about the relationships.
I honestly don’t know where we go from here but what I did tell him was to pray and then sleep on it. Same exact thing I told him the night before we committed to UofA.