Enjoy this free printable with 32 different ideas to make the most of reading with children.
I stood in her guest room, head tilted. Framed snapshots and professional photos surrounded a sizeable, well-framed headshot of her mother when she had still been healthy. Such a lovely, kind smile.
A three-year battle with a rare cancer took her four years ago now. A godly, loving woman, a pillar in her community and family, whose power of her absence belies of the quality of her presence.
1.That they’ll be… miserable. Well, that is, if they’re caught up in sin. I know, I know…this messes with a bit of a sacred cow; our children’s happiness is culturally paramount. I remember my mom praying this for a wayward sister, who was horrified when she found out! But there’s merit in asking God that if our kids are trapped in a lifestyle that’s killing their souls, their minds and hearts would feel sin for the misery, pain, and poison it is, so they’ll yearn for relief. David himself acknowledged about his time tangled in secret sin that
when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Psalm 32:3-4
…Because there’s just too much real life not to share. Catch last week’s post here.
Me, returning from the grocery store: I bought us two pairs of tweezers, because heaven knows we have a surplus of eyebrows around here.
Is anyone else out there guilty of subtly rigging their own personality assessment? Turns out that, surprise! God’s knowledgeable engineering of me might not have been so inconvenient or, uh, misguided after all.
Shame, it seems, articulates that gap between who we wish we were (appropriately or not) and who we have powerfully demonstrated ourselves lacking to be. It’s a fear of being found out, naked in all we truly are.
Sometimes there's just too much real life not to share.
I'm realizing something. Godly responses to conflict are pretty much all counter-natural--or more specifically, super-natural. They beg an overhaul of what I typically want to do.
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