I have often been told that I lean on my parents too much. I've spent a great deal of time thinking and praying about this accusation. I have settled on a simple response.
When I need my truck worked on, I take it to a mechanic. Why? Because a mechanic has knowledge that is out of my reach.
My parents have lived this life far longer than I. They have struggled and persevered.
When I need advice about life, I seek the people who have lived it before.
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
Titus 2:1-8
