I read these scriptures yesterday during my quiet time, and they were so poignant to me that I had to write them out on a card to give to my eldest.  Whoever complains about Paul being so brash and uncaring apparently hasn't spent enough time with his writings!  I love his *motherly* heart here . . . it reflects mine perfectly right now as I worry about correctly disciplining my teenage sons, who are caught in the transition from childhood to adulthood, while I'm caught in the transition from teacher to guide.

2 Cor. 2:2-4

For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful?  I wrote to you so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.  For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you. 

2 Cor. 3:2-6

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. . .   Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.  Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.

Those scriptures are so full, I don't want to add my thoughts on them yet.  Read them again and see if there's anything God wants to say to you in there, either from Him to you as your Father, or some truth about your relationship to your children which you (or they!) need to see.