Seeking Sabbath: In Open Places
On the Sabbath, I resist the impulse to control my kids’ wild energy and excitement.
Discipleship
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We thanked God for each room in our old home before we moved.
As a parent, moving a family creates a sense of dread and anticipation all wrapped into one.
Parenting for Faith from a Distance
I know how it can be hard to separate co-parenting from the pain of divorce. But I also know God is still at work in my life.
My parents bought me a scary children’s Bible. Then I let my own child see one.
One would think, after my own experience, that I’d be ultra careful with my own kids’ scriptural education.
Raising Children to be Friends
I asked my girls what they think my husband and I did to nurture their friendship. They attribute their love for each other to some of our core values.
My mother and I read and discuss the Bible together.
I have read through the Bible, cover to cover, probably three times so far.
My son and I read and discuss the Bible together.
My dad always says, “Nothing will change in your life if you do not read the Bible.” I believe this is true.
I spent sixty seconds in silence with middle schoolers every day. It was fabulous.
Jesus does wonders with that still space we make in our hearts and makes it enough—more than enough—to carry us wherever we need to go.
Children ooze with love and knowledge of God. It’s up to us to notice.
Everyone loves babies. They know where they’ve come from and they know to whom they belong: Infinite Love.
My children are hearing the Bible in worship, camp and Sunday School. It all counts!
All of the snippets of scripture that we hear in worship and sing in hymns “count” in my children’s Christian education.
