The life and trials of a growing Christian- Day Sixty Six

I talked to my daughter tonight and she told me that she's on the principle's honor roll and she's in the top one percent of students in the state of Georgia. She has also been on the honor roll every year that she's been in school. I'm very proud of her. I also know that if I had kept custody of her that she probably wouldn't have done so well. This is very hard for me to admit but I couldn't have done anywhere near the job that her mother has done raising her. I was to worried about getting drunk and high and having fun to have been able to teach her any good study habits. I don't even know anything about study habits. At the rate that I was going, she probably would have dropped out, gotten pregnant, ran away, gotten hooked on drugs or all of the above. I can't believe how quickly the time has passed, she'll be a senior next year and is starting to consider what collage she would like to attend. It seems like just yesterday that I has trying to teach her how to ride a bike and now she's driving. I know that she doesn't think I'm any fun anymore since I've found Jesus and we but heads a lot about the existence of God and what the bible says about things. We are on completely opposite sides of the spectrum when it comes to a lot of things which causes a lot of friction sometimes. I want so desperately for her to open her self to Jesus and submit her life to Him, but she doesn't want to have any parts of it. I know she feels as if I'm trying to cram Him down her throat and sometimes I probably am. It's not my intention but I just get so frustrated. In fact that's the way I am with a lot of people, I just want to get past the blinders that everybody puts on but I just end up making people angry instead. I know that the gospel is an offense to those who aren't open it, but maybe I need to work on the way in which I present it. The bottom line is if my daughter and everybody else who haven't accepted Jesus were to go before Him right now, He would tell them "depart from me, I never knew you". I don't want for anybody, not even my worst enemy to have to hear that, let alone, my own daughter. It's out of love for her that I keep on trying to witness to her. I just hope that one day....