Unpacking the Road Less Traveled: Parenting with Purpose

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:01:01

Welcome to Becoming Bridge Builders, where we explore stories of faith, purpose and transformation. Today's guest is someone whose voice is both timely and timeless. Kyle Towns is a Christian freelance writer, author and conference speaker.

She's a former public school teacher, a homeschooling mother of five, and a passion advocate for reclaiming childhood through a Christ centered lens.

Her new book, the Road Less Traveled, Reclaiming Childhood from Christianity for Christianity, is a heartfelt, thought provoking call to parents, educators and faith leaders to reimagine how we can nurture the spiritual and emotional lives of children in today's culture. Kyle, welcome to the podcast.

Kyle Towns: 00:01:41

Thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be here.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:01:44

So good to have you. I'm looking forward to this conversation. It's an important topic, especially in today's society and world.

So going to give you the opportunity to kind of share with us what's on your heart. But before we start that, my favorite question to ask my guests is what's your best piece of advice you've ever received?

Kyle Towns: 00:02:02

So I narrowed it down to three of them, which I know is not what you're asking. You want one, but I'm going to give you quick three. So.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:02:11

Okay, that's fine.

Kyle Towns: 00:02:12

Okay. Two of them are from my dad, who's a very wise man and he always told me to major in the majors.

And I think that's really applicable to every aspect of life that we need to always know what's most important, if it's relationships, child raising, you know, your job, and make sure that we keep those priorities clear in our minds so that we're designating the proper attention to those things. And it's helped me a lot.

It kind of reminds me of what St. Augustine says about ordering our loves aright and just making sure that we, we keep that priority system clear, you know, in our head. So that's the first and the second he tells me when I get anxious or I have a problem that I think is insurmountable.

He tells me the Trinity doesn't have to hold a conference to figure this one out. And it just, it calms me back down.

It brings me back to center of saying, okay, the reality is that the Lord already has ordained how this is going to work out. He has fixed the problem. He understands the fear or the concern or the issue and it's not a problem for him.

So I can take a step back and a little bit of a deep breath when, when I hear that, and I hear it in my mind now because he said it so Many times he doesn't have to say it anymore. And then the last one was just a piece of advice that I found so helpful from a pastor that has been a part of my life for a long time.

And my husband went through a major health crisis a few years ago and things were really hard. And the pastor said to him, it's quantity time over quality time when it comes to your family.

And at first I pulled back at that and said that does not seem right. It's not what I've ever heard.

I don't like that my husband took it to heart and right away he was doing the little things with us that are unimportant.

Seemingly if he was around, he was in the kitchen with me, just hanging out while I'm cooking or if I have to run an errand, he's getting in the car with me and the kids and running the errand. And it actually made a huge impact on our family life just taking those moments, insignificant though they may be.

We're not maybe going on a date, we're not doing something really exciting. It's a silly errand to Walmart, but it impacts, it actually does affect our relationship and our family life.

So those are the three, the three that I narrowed it down to the most impactful advice I'd say that I've had.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:04:47

Well, I could see how it's hard to pick between those three because those are all three really little gems there. So yeah, that's good. I'll give you permission to give more than one.

Kyle Towns: 00:04:57

Well, thank you. Appreciate it.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:05:00

So let's talk about your book. What inspired you to write the Road Less Traveled?

Kyle Towns: 00:05:07

It was sort of a dual situation where both through raising my children, Christian child raising being the focus of our child raising and seeing the fruit of that, both relationship wise and their relationship with their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, their personal relationship with their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and simultaneously watching a lot of Christian friends struggle and flounder with modern child rearing practices and principles that were basically suffocating and eating away at their, at their family, destroying their relationships instead of building them up and not, not nurturing the relationship of their children with Jesus Christ and, and having my heart go out to them, wanting them to experience similar things.

Not that it's without challenges or difficulties or sins or anything like that, but just that there is so much fruit in this way of child raising when you're raising them really in Christ centered.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:06:07

What do you find the most challenging part of writing your book? I know for me you reach those Moments where it's kind of like this section is really hard to crystallize in my mind.

Was there like a section that you just kind of struggle to put pen to paper?

Kyle Towns: 00:06:22

It wasn't a section. I'd say the whole thing was a struggle for me.

I'm not a particularly, I don't think, highly intelligent person or someone that I actually balked at doing this for a number of years. I felt the pressure on my heart to do it.

And I thought someone more equipped is going to come around, someone better than me, and they're going to fill this. This gap of doing a holistic approach to child raising that deals with every fundamental impression area that we need to be addressing as Christians.

So not just their relationship with Jesus Christ, but what's going into their heart and mind, which then affects that and their education, which is formative and something that deals with all of it and waiting for that, and I didn't see it. So I finally listened to that pressure on my heart, picked up my pen and started. And I just.

I struggled with the process itself of I had a lot of ideas built up over the years that I've.

I've been thinking through and, you know, through reading my scripture and all this that I've wanted to address and then how to put that in a form that flows. That all connects noticeably. It connects in my head. But how do you make sure people understand the connections and that it's clear to everybody?

And so honestly, it was just. The whole process was a struggle, but we got there in the end, so that's. That's what matters.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:07:37

So you've worn many hats, Teacher, mother, speaker. How did your personal journey shape the message of this book?

Kyle Towns: 00:07:44

I think that the journey that affected my book and the message started before even the hats were put on.

From my experience in various types of educational settings, because I've gone through public school, private school, homeschooling, and I went to boarding school across the country. So I have seen the various options available and experienced it.

And it was through that process that I started on this road, seeing that someone like me, high, highly motivated, very driven, very focused, who does have a natural love of learning, can have that destroyed through the. The modern educational system where it's about regurgitating the right answer, don't question, don't think for yourself.

It's not about independent thinking. You know, you need to just do what you're told, and it kind of crushes the spirit. And I experienced that.

And I also experienced not having the supervision of my parents and the presence of my parents, starting at 15, when I went to boarding school, and the effect that that had. It was the darkest period of my life. I entered extremely deep depression. I was very popular, but I felt very alone.

And I left the faith because I didn't have my parents there to guide me and to be a part of that. And I don't in any way blame my parents. I wanted to go to the sporting school. I was the one that pushed for it.

But, you know, foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, as scripture says. So I didn't know what was best for me. And I. I saw no, you really do need the presence of your children, of your parents throughout your childhood.

And then as I went through, I became a teacher. I got my first job in inner city D.C. i was a music teacher. I was 20 years old, fresh out of college, and I applied to a dual middle and high school.

So half the school was middle school, half the school was high school. And they signed three of us music teachers on for high school.

We all signed our contract, and the next day we went in and they said, two of you are actually teaching middle school. And I was terrified because my student teaching had been elementary and high school. I thought I was going to.

I thought that was where I belonged, teaching high school, you know, I can handle that. And I had heard horror stories of middle school and how awful it's going to be. And I was terrified. I was absolutely terrified.

And I went into this environment that was very different. I was the minority in every sense, from my upbringing to the color of my skin, to everything.

I. I went into this, and it was a completely different environment.

I. I learned a lot through that experience of seeing how much children struggle when, you know, they're coming from extremely broken homes, parents in prison and jail, they were dealing with their problems with fist fights in the classroom. You know, a lot of children getting pregnant and all this in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. So. So the learning curve for me was extreme.

How do I manage classrooms? How do I reach children in this environment? I had to make my own curriculum from scratch. So every. Every day, I'm designing my own curriculum.

They didn't give me anything. So I learned a lot in that environment. It was very stressful and difficult, but I felt like I took away a lot from that.

That was a growth experience for me. And then I went from there to teaching public school in Virginia.

And they're also what it has to do with the book, because I saw behind the scenes, in a different environment. A lot of kids from two parent households, you know, easier life, but so many situations going on that affected the children.

And they would come to me as the music teacher. You know, music is the international language, right? And people feel emotionally drawn, I think, or emotionally vulnerable through music.

So I was having kids coming before school and at lunch and after school and they would just talk to me about their life and what they're going through. And I saw the result of bullying and self harm and the pressures in that environment that children are experiencing.

And it, it made me realize the impact that this is having on children in a way that maybe was more than some teachers that don't have that interaction and that, you know, the, the vulnerability element of children. And on top of that last thing, I'll say that impacted where I went, ended up going with my own children and with, with writing the book.

And all of this was seeing that there's this idea that we as parents are not specialists, so we're at a disadvantage with our children.

But, but when I was a teacher, I saw the specialists, quote, unquote, you know, the math teacher who's supposed to be teaching math in sixth grade is teaching science and history in seventh and eighth grade. The next year they're just told, hey, guess what? This is what you're doing. You know, and they have to just follow a book and do their best.

And it made me realize, well, I can do that. You know, I am capable, I am able to do this because I see it's not magic, it's just work. And you know, you're able to accomplish that.

So KV it gave me a lot of self assurance to go down the path with my children of homeschooling them myself.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:13:16

We homeschool our kids. We made a decision to do that. And, and I'm curious for you, we got the same pushback of you're not qualified to do this. We.

Why aren't you just putting your kids in a public school system? Shouldn't they be little lights and little salt to the other community around you? How do you push back?

Because I think what your book is, is you're talking about kind of a countercultural approach to education. And so what does reclaiming your childhood for Christianity mean to you in that context?

Kyle Towns: 00:13:55

So the first of all, the title itself, it's true that it. So it comes from a Robert Frost poem where he says, you know, I took the road less travel, and it's made all the difference.

And the idea here is that it does make a huge difference what we do with Our children as we're. We're raising them.

And I think this idea that we should put them when they're their most vulnerable, when they're at the stage where they're learning about themselves and about truth and reality, they're learning about good and evil, they're learning about how to behave and what to think, what to value. That that's the time when they should be put into the highest pressure situations that they will ever endure is sort of silly. I mean, it's.

I've heard the analogy before of a plant. You know, if there's a.

A winter storm raging, you keep your plant inside and you grow it until it's strong enough to go out there and endure and, and live successfully in that environment. You don't just stick it out there and say, well, if it's going to live, it's going to live, and if it's not, it's not.

And you know, oh, well, it's got to go out there sometime. Might as well put it out there while it's tiny. And so we want to build, as Christians, our children up, because we do know what's out there.

We do understand there's a spiritual realm and it's real. And that this is an attack.

This is a realm that attacks in such a vicious nature that even we as adults, armed with the word of God, we struggle with it. How much more?

Our children, who are still in the process of learning the word of God, they're still in the process of learning all these things about the world and about themselves.

And so we want to build that up in them so that they can go out and be the light, that they can go out and make a difference in the culture because they're equipped.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:15:39

I love that. So let's dig into your book a little bit more because you have four pillars in your book. Let's talk about those four pillars.

Kyle Towns: 00:15:48

Okay, so I give an analogy of a house. And that is the most important structural elements to early childhood to give.

You keep your priorities, speaking of major and the majors, keeping your priorities straight. So there is a foundation before we even set the pillars, because we've got to have something to build on, and that is the word of God.

And that means that our children need to know the word of God, because as we talked about, it's the sword of the spirit. This is what you do spiritual battle with is the sword, which is the word of God. And our children need to hear that word.

So I'm encouraging in the book that we have our children either hear or read the actual Word of God, not Bible stories. Because there is a. And not that there's anything wrong with Bible stories, but there's a specific promise attached to the Word of God in Scripture.

And that promise is that faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God, not hearing from Bible stories. And I get pushback from parents of, well, how can my kid. They can't understand it.

And I think it's honestly audacious of us to stand here and say, the God of the universe who knit together every single atom, who created every child, who put the stars in their place and the planets in their orbits, and he isn't capable of communicating to a child through his Word. That's where his power stops. That's where he's limited. But I can fill that gap better. You know, I can. I can do it better.

I just think we need to take a step back and realize something that is the Lord of the Universe who calls children to him, he can communicate to them. And so it's again, fine to do Bible stories, but we need to actually incorporate the powerful Word of God into their daily life.

Um, and then I have these other four structural themes or elements that are really important. The first is, of course, godly discipline, which is attached to forgiveness and encouragement.

And I talk about what that means, vetted screen time, which means that we don't just give our children screens with Lord knows what content on them for however much period of time, because we understand that that impacts and affects children. It affects them mentally and it affects them spiritually. It's not just one or the other.

You don't have to be a Christian, I've said, you know, because it's true, to care about the screen time issue. It's well documented in our society, the numerous problems that occur by prolonged screen use and of course, the content coming in from the screen.

So we have discipline vetted screen time, great books, filling our children's minds with wonderful and inspiring books, and then active play, which is engaging in our environment in real time. Right. Because this idea that children are forming all their knowledge of the world means they need to engage with the real world.

They need to see how to do chores, they need to see how to cook dinner, how to be creative.

And I think one thing I want to bring up here is, is that if you're a Christian, then your child has to be able to experience not being entertained to have a relationship with their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. If you are constantly being entertained and our children are experiencing six to eight plus Hours a day on entertainment with their screens.

How are they going to have a relationship with Jesus Christ? You don't have the opportunity to pray, to contemplate, self reflect. All these things are impossible, but yet part of an actually. And it's an.

It's a necessary component of being a Christian. So we've got to let our children experience not being entertained, having to entertain themselves, to think, to explore in their environment.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:19:28

So we got the pillars, we got the foundation, walls, roof. What's that look like in your.

Kyle Towns: 00:19:34

Yeah, so the walls that go around all this are love. And I think love has been really skewed in our culture. We need to go back to Scripture to see what love is. Right. Love is entirely different than.

It's just than you would come to believe if you just watched movies. It would be very subjective, very feeling oriented if you did that.

But when you look at scripture, you hear that God is love, and in Jesus is God in the flesh. So we want to look at Jesus Christ as an example in all ways of what is loving and what love is.

And then of course, you go to Corinthians and you hear, love is patient. Love is kind. It doesn't end, you know, envy, it doesn't boast and all these things.

And, and, and we want to express that to our children in every way. And that means looking to what they need in that moment.

Love is not enduring sinful behaviors that destroy and are destructive to our children and sitting back and saying, look how loving I am. I'm not addressing it. I'm being so patient and wonderful. Meanwhile, your child's spirit is being warped by that behavior.

I mean, what we do and say does impact the heart and mind. The Lord cares about it, we should care about it.

So love is demonstrated in a variety of ways through addressing behaviors and through obviously, you know, verbalizing your love of your child and doing whatever they need in that moment, whatever it is that they're clearly craving or desiring in terms of what's best for them long term. So those are the walls of love and then the roof of protection.

And I encourage parents to look at that Corinthians passage where it talks about love being patient and kind, because it says that love always protects and we have had it used in our culture that protection from parents is something you don't want to be accused of. Don't be accused of being. Actually, I have a story on that. There we were in New York and we had a backyard with no fence.

I had three little kids at the time, and my Oldest was about six. The lady behind us was an old grandmother and she would have her grandchildren come over.

Her daughter was having a situ, what do you want to call it, affairs with a lot of men. And she was having children by different men.

And these children would come to the lady's house and play and because we had no fence, they'd come over to our yard and play on our swing set, which was fine initially until the six year old boy was whispering things in my daughter's ear and causing her to be so afraid to leave the house that she wasn't wanting to go and play in her own backyard.

So after addressing this and nothing changed, I went to the grandmother and said, I'm sorry to tell you, but your, your grandchild is no longer allowed in my yard because he's scaring my daughter to the point that she can't play in our yard.

And the lady said to me, well, I know that you homeschool, so I know that the reason you're doing that is just to be overprotective and keep them from everything in the world. And I told her that is, first of all, to protect my 6 year old is my job. It is my job to protect her.

This idea that it's an accusation, I am proud to say I protect my child from evil. You know, I can't protect her from every sin in the world.

But that's a ridiculous accusation because sin is prevailing even, you know, pervasive, even in her own body, not to mention in mine and everything around us. But of course, if there's a known evil or a known attack, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to protect her from it.

But it's an important part of parenting, especially in our culture where there's a lot of things coming at our children. The devil's very aware of who to attack and how to do it, and he wants our children.

So we need to stand in that gap and say, you know, not today, Satan.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:23:18

So with that in mind, parents who are hearing this going, I want to begin to make that shift to be more aware of how to protect my kids and put that hedge up around them and build that solid foundation. What practical steps do you see to help parents align more closely with biblical principles?

Kyle Towns: 00:23:37

First thing is you got to read the Bible. If you don't have the lamp to your feet and the light to your path, then how are you going to walk it? I mean, there's no shortcut.

I think we love shortcuts in our culture. We like Give me, you know, give me the three step program that doesn't include, is a pill more than a, an action.

But if you, you have to prioritize as the parent that reading your scripture is the first and most important part of your day, and it's the first and most important part of your children's day so that you know, so that you have guidance and wisdom, because there is. And that you can put every advice you get about parenting up against the word of God.

I'm gonna shine God's light on that, A piece of advice I just got and say, does that line up, does that line up with God's word? Because if it doesn't, it's going in the trash. I'm just going to discard that.

But if it does, then I can take that on board and use that to wisely raise my children. So the very, very first and foremost is that and then caring about what goes into their heart and mind, because that forms a child, that forms them.

And if we don't care about what's coming into their hearts and minds, then they're going to be formed in all sorts. And we've seen this culturally in all sorts of perversive ways.

And they're going to grow in that during their most formative years, which means changing it is incredibly difficult. This is the time, this is when the iron's hot. This is when we need to be shaping them.

And so watching their social media, watching the time they spend on the screens and the music they listen to, guiding them in a wise way so that they are learning themselves how to interact with the world and to follow the Lord.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:25:18

So we talked about in the beginning of this discussion about homeschooling and how a lot of parents may want to do it because they don't like what they see in the school system around them, but they feel ill equipped, unprepared to lead their kids at home to homeschool them. So what encouragement do you have for parents who like, I'd love to do this, but I just feel ill prepared, unequipped to do this.

Kyle Towns: 00:25:39

Okay, so the first thing I would say is that is a Christian attitude, like Christianity is not the religion to go to. If you want to feel enough, if you want to feel that you are equipped and prepared and in every way strong, you've got the wrong religion.

But he is enough. He is equipped. He is, and he is strong. And he has called you.

And you know how you know he's called you because you're a parent, which means he ordained from the beginning of time to give you a child made in his image, to give you that child he died for on the cross that he loved that much. He chose you.

And he chose you even though he knows that you're weak and you have sins and tendencies and a short temper and whatever else, but he chose you. So that means he will equip you. He will equip you to walk that path.

And you can rest in his strength and the fact he's promised to never leave you or forsake you.

And in that, I would also say there are so many resources out there, free resources, resources that'll help teach you how to teach or teach for you through the program. And it's really a if you read, you can succeed kind of situation. I mean, if you can read the directions, people will tell you.

There are so many things out there to tell you, even exactly what to say. If you don't even want to come up with, you know, the phrasing. You can find programs that'll tell you how to phrase it to your child.

So the resources are abundant. It's not like it was when I was a kid or my parents were children where the resources were not plentiful. Now you.

You have a lot, you know, an abundance, maybe even an overabundance of things that you can choose from. But. But in the end, you know, all those insecurities and insufficiencies that you feel, that's a normal Christian response.

And I would just encourage them to take refuge in the Lord in that.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:27:38

That's awesome. So what do people take away from reading your book?

Kyle Towns: 00:27:44

So I really want them to be just inspired to lead their children in the way of the Lord, regardless of who else is doing it with them.

My concern and what I've witnessed as a parent is that there are many, many particularly moms, who are prone to look around them and seek validation in who else is doing it. I don't want to do it unless, you know, multiple friends are doing it. And if multiple friends are doing it, then it must be good and I should do it.

You be the leader, you know, you be the one to take that step and say, I don't care if you're coming along with me or not, anyone around me. I'm going to do what I believe is best and right for my child because I am their leader. I am, you know, who was tasked with that.

And I think that's a perspective we should have as Christians anyway, because the world's not going to follow us. You know, they're not going to cheer us on. So let's stop looking for that in our peers.

Let's stop, stop looking for that in social media and start saying, I, you know, I work to please the Lord and not man, and it doesn't matter. So I'm just going to go ahead and follow the Lord.

So I hope that once they read the book and they're given factual basis, a factual basis for making these decisions, because I use statistics and, you know, actual studies of what has been proven to be the best course of action with children, plus the word of God. And they use that to say, yes, I know that, you know, X and Y and Z is the best road to go on and the best thing to do with my child.

So I'm just going to go do it.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:29:22

That's great. So I love to ask my guests this question, as you know from listening to podcast, what do you want your legacy to be?

Kyle Towns: 00:29:29

Yeah. So it's a good question.

When I think of legacy, I think of them, you know, when I'm not to go dark here, but when I'm really old or I'm dying, what is it the most important thing when I look back on my life, like, what am I going to have cared most about? And it is far and away that my five children have a personal relationship with their Lord and Savior, Jesus. Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

And I know that I will see them again on the last day by far. I want every parent to have that same priority and that same legacy where maybe all else failed.

Maybe I didn't have the greatest career, maybe not everybody knew my name, maybe I didn't make a lot of money, but none of that's gonna matter when I'm dying anyway.

What is gonna matter is that those five for me, five people that I love more than anything in the world, that I am going to see them on last day and they're gonna live forever with my, my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So I, I, that was what I would like to be. My, my legacy.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:30:28

That's awesome. So in season six, we have a new thing. We've asked a guest to pick a number between one and five for surprise questions. What number do you pick?

Kyle Towns: 00:30:38

Okay. All right. Five.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:30:44

All right. Your surprise question is, what is the weirdest tradition your family has?

Kyle Towns: 00:30:51

Weirdest. I mean, first tradition that comes to mind isn't particularly weird. I guess it could be if you know, a little bit.

But my, my five daughters and I, we cook for three days prior to Thanksgiving. And the weird part about it is, and we, and it's only girls allowed in the kitchen, is that we.

In order to do this, as they've gotten older and more skilled, you have to add more recipes. So we end up making enough food for the entire congregation, plus more. And you just end up with. It's ridiculous. So we invite whoever wants to.

To come over because, you know, the food is so much. But it's fun. It's a wonderful tradition, and we definitely do it every year, so I guess that would qualify.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:31:31

How do five women survive in a kitchen together? That's a good.

Kyle Towns: 00:31:37

Well, you know, this is what I say. I say about my husband.

He's the most diplomatic man you'll ever find because he knows how to navigate all these different, you know, all the female dynamics, and he can come in and out of there and be perfectly fine. But no, no, we. We do. We. We do fine. We all have our specific roles. You know, you. You got to designate those very clearly. So then we're fine.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:32:00

So are there any upcoming projects or speaking engagements you want to share with our listeners?

Kyle Towns: 00:32:06

I'm going to be doing various speaking in different states next year, which I'm really excited about. They're all tentative as pastors are getting funding right now.

And so I'd encourage people to look around, see if I'm going to be, you know, talk to their pastor, see if I'm going to be coming to their area. If not, I would love to come out there and inspire and encourage people in their Christian walk. I think now is the time to strike, as I've said.

I mean, you mentioned this at the beginning, the culture. I think we're at a point where people are seeing this is destructive, this isn't working, and we need a different way.

So I think we need to get the word out there and as. As much as possible. So I'll be doing that.

And then I have my blog at kids are capable.net and I keep posting their articles and such to encourage parents, so people are welcome to look me up on that.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:32:50

So where can listeners find your book the Road Less Travel, Reclaiming Childhood for Christianity?

Kyle Towns: 00:32:55

It's on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and any place you normally shop for books. I think it's slightly discounted right now, so get it while it's hot.

Rev. Keith Haney: 00:33:05

Well, Kyle, thank you so much for sharing your heart, your wisdom, your vision for reclaiming childhood through faith.

Your book is a powerful reminder that the most meaningful transformations often begin at home and in the quiet moments of intentional love and discipleship for our listeners. We'll welcome you to. We'll include Kyle's book links and website and upcoming show notes.

So whether you're a parent or a teacher or simply someone who cares deeply about the next generation, the Road Less Traveled is a must read. This is becoming bridge builders and you've been listening to your host, Reverend Keith Haney. Until next time, keep walking the Road Less traveled.

It might just lead to a closer heart, closer walk with God.