“I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one more thing I wish I could give them, and that is faith in Jesus Christ. If they had that and I had not given them one shilling, they would be rich; and if I had not given them that, and had given them all the world, they would be poor indeed.”
Patrick Henry as recounted by Ross Campbell and Gary Chapman in How to Really Love Your Adult Child: Building a Healthy Relationship in a Changing World (Chicago: Northfield, 2011) 184.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever wants to lose his life for me and for the Gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Mark 8:35-36
Campbell and Chapman add this comment with this quote: “The heart of your legacy to your adult children is not financial but spiritual. Praying for your children daily is a living legacy that can influence their behavior now and for years to come. The praying parent not only becomes a wiser person but is forever an influential parent.”
Make it so Lord Jesus as we (and many others we know) seek to launch our adult children in the days to come in a crazy world.