Sometime I would like to write a post directed at parents who don’t see the difficulties. For instance, those who believe that if they do the right things, faith and repentance are all but assured for their children. And all the associated terminology, such as the homeschooling jargon of “building godly character” into your children by means of the curriculum.

First of all, I just wanted to say thank you for the Latin books you sent. They made me very excited.

I also must say that I relate a lot to Spurgeon here. I actually embraced Christ fairly late in my teens (which was of course not that long ago) after a long time of kind of pretending…I got baptized when I was twelve purely for the purpose of getting my parents to leave me alone about it.

They probably weren’t fooled, though. I am sure that many earnest prayers were offered up in my behalf as I hid my face and hardened my heart. I had as many opportunities and as much Christian education as it is possible to have, growing up, but it just took a while for me to finally get the point.

I thank the Lord for godly Christian parents like mine and like you.