The Fruit of the Holy Spirit

I had to lead a weekly group that brings me together with some brethren most of whom are married. I chose for myself to comment on the words of the Apostle to the Ephesians 6:1-4. The readers of the epistle know that Paul has prefaced his words on marriage and then on the family by urging the faithful to be filled with the Holy Spirit (5:18). There is no good marriage, or good fatherhood and sonship, without this fullness. When I set about interpreting the word: “Children, obey your parents in the Lord…,” a friend publicly wished her two children were with us now. I turned this wish into my question to them: “have you obeyed your parents in everything when you were young?”. “No!”, they all answered as if with one voice. I tried to see with them, in Paul’s address to the children, words to their fathers to recall that no obedience is right other than that which is “in the Lord”. One of the brethren enlightened us by saying that what his parents had told him remain with him to this day. This is of the fruit of the Holy Spirit Who never ceases to speak to us.