Parenting �th   Spiritual Awareness

Anthony Marek

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minute, precious moment to precious 

moment.

Once, when my daughters were 

quite young, my wife and I decided it 

would be nice to start a family tradi-

tion of a morning hike on Thanks-

giving, so we journeyed out by car to 

the trailhead.  As we were scouting out 

a place to park, it seemed to me that a 

driver in another vehicle was focused 

on inserting his enormous SUV in a 

rather compact parking spot, thereby 

holding up traffic as he tried and tried 

again to fit the square peg in the round 

hole. Without thinking, I blurted out, 

“that guy doesn’t know how to drive.”

Minutes later, now parked and 

strolling leisurely to the trailhead, we 

encountered that family on the path, 

and my eldest daughter, upon seeing 

and recognizing the father of the clan, 

joyfully exclaimed, “Daddy, there is the 

man that doesn’t know how to drive!” 

Luckily for me, this lesson was 

learned quickly and in a relatively 

harmless fashion.  

Each night, when my daughters have 

retired for the evening, and the books 

are closed and the house is quiet, 

I enter their bedroom and share a 

prayer. It is one that I created from my 

heart, and one that I repeat aloud to 

them every night. It goes like this:

“

See you in the morning,  

God willing. May you grow strong, 

happy and healthy, God willing.  

May you always know Peace. 

Namaste, reverence to the  

Divine within you. May you realize 

your highest good in this lifetime—

Self-realization, God-realization, 

enlightenment. Om, Peace, Shanti, 

Amen.

”

May you be blessed to truly experi-

ence the joy of parenting with spiritual 

awareness, and may your love overflow 

your heart and bathe your children in 

awareness of the divine.