Our Best Friend ForeverEvery Catholic parent wants to raise children in God’s friendship. That’s the best way we know to keep our children safe and on the right path to Heaven. Still, we don’t always encourage children to think of God as a friend — yet he wants to be our very best friend. God’s love for us is active, alive and real. The Bible is chock full of ways he has proven his love and friendship to us. The most important way Jesus showed his friendship is by taking on our humanity and dying on the Cross for us. “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends” (John 16:13). And, Jesus assured us that God will always care for us. “If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?” (Matthew 6:30). Distribute this special issue to help parents encourage children to think of God as the best possible friend -- our best friend forever. |