An image that I never tire of seeing is a parent and child face to face focused on each other. Playing around or having a conversation - they are engaging, relating, choosing to focus on this other person that they value, love.
Whether we're astute multi-taskers or not, it's so tempting to merely ...
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A Clean Slate
You wipe the slate of my heart clean over and over again, God. I don't deserve it. Never could I begin to count the number of times You have forgiven me. Father, You are SO patient with me! SO merciful. Why?
For love. You love us with a depth that is unfathomable to us. You see. You ...
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Loving Correction
A significant way to demonstrate our love to and for our children is correction.
"A refusal to correct is a refusal to love; love your children by discipline." (Proverbs 13.24, The Message)
Who would have ever thought that correction demonstrates love? But it does. It may not feel like love as we ...
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Personal Trainer
"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22.6)
If our children play a musical instrument, act, take dance or voice lessons, we tell them to practice. If they're on a gymnastics, basketball, tennis or soccer team, we encourage them to ...
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Learning to Teach
"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you." (Psalm 32.8)
God does what He says. He teaches us the way - from the practical to the relational to the spiritual - while we live in this world. With a loving eye, He counsels us.
This includes ...
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Choosing Counsel
"All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." (1 Peter 5.5)
I desperately NEED grace. I definitely want God's favor. He has promised it to me. And yet, I struggle still.
One day I realized that I am potentially ...
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Learning to Enjoy
The beds have been stripped. The piano is quiet. The loud music is gone. The laundry room is ... quiet. The refrigerator looks sadly empty. The Christmas break is over. Our kids have returned to their school campuses, their dorms and apartments.
The first week they leave is always the hardest ...
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HE CAME
Well, our house is half decorated. I started last week and haven't had time to finish yet! Terrell has said a couple of times now, "I think we should decorate the whole banister, not just half the way up..." I plan to finish today. Well, we'll see.
Do you have any favorite Christmas decorations? ...
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Make This Season Count
Are we going to buy diapers forEVER?
When are our boys going to stop fighting and realize they could be good friends?
Will my child ever get to have a special friend?
Is my relationship with my teenager always going to be so strained?
Often we won't understand God's timetable for our life ...
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Our “Looks”
I like spy movies. I think it's so cool the way they use technology to communicate with each other on a mission. Sometimes I used to say to my husband, "I wish our children had earbuds like spies use. Then we could tell them what they need to hear (in our opinion)." I shared this thought at ...
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Now’s the time!
VBS... Christian camps... mission trips... Sunday school... Our children have been blessed by all of the above... creative activities, high energy games, yummy food, cool teachers, funny presentations. My guess is that most of us have volunteered in at least one of the ministries I just named...and ...
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Focus
I've had a bit of transition in my life over the past few months. We've moved to a new state, I have returned to full time employment, and my husband and I are working together - sharing an office in our new home. If you want to pray for Terrell and me adjusting to working together in our "cozy" ...
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