We are living in a crucial moment of history and the way we attach to others will shape our character for the good or the bad. Our kids need us to form healthy attachments with them. Our world needs us to reflect on our own character.

My hope for us all this week is that we can think about how and what we are attached to.

In his book Renovated, Jim Wilder writes in the concluding paragraphs the following words. “Attachment is pivotal to character development. Hesed with bad company grows bad character, while hesed with upright company grows good character. Pain that sticks with us comes from broken attachments. Attachment sticks. Death, abandonment, neglect, betrayal, conflict, and the social problems associated with them derive from attachment gone wrong.”

We have a choice to make about which attachments we are allowing our days to be shaped by. My encouragement for us this week is to simply, deeply, think about our own attachments and how they are shaping our character.