April 30, 2009
I have been wanting to start memorizing scripture that is applicable to our current struggles and issues with my kids for a while now. I had kind of tried it on my own, picking a few verses and learning them and trying to use them in our daily lives to really help them learn why we need to obey and be kind and so on. I also had my eye on this book for a while and last week, I bought it.
It has been 4 days and we all know four verses (well, at least Ethan and I do. Tegan gets the idea and can say a bit of them). It has been great. They are excited about it and want to read it, several times a day. And it has been applicable and, well, exactly what I needed to direct me to which verses to teach them. There is a little story to go along with the verse and I think it helps to make the point in a way they can understand. I have also just liked to have something in addition to our Bible reading during the day. Shane reads the Bible to the kids in the evenings, but this is something I get to do with them. We have posted the verses on index cards in the kitchen and I have to say, the verses have found there way into our lives every minute of our day. God’s word is good and I want it hidden in their hearts.
And while I am on the subject, The Jesus Storybook Bible is amazing. I highly recommend it. Each story talks to the gospel. The Easter story made me cry when we read it. It is a little advanced for the little ones… I would say some of it is even advanced for Ethan and four, but he sits and listens and asks as well as answers questions.
Taking time to show children the importance of being in God’s word and also hiding it in our hearts is so vital and I am thankful that we have these tools at our fingertips!
April 26, 2009
I was standing in church this morning during worship when a man behind me pointed out to Shane something on the back of my dress. My first thought was a stain, a sticker (that happens quite often) or a spider… turned out to be a little ladybug friend. How sweet is that? I picked it up and took it outside where I deposited it on a flowering bush. I love when little things like that happen. And I am very glad it wasn’t a stain, sticker, or a spider.
April 24, 2009
I just had another Avonlea memory I thought I would share, since it has to do with my last post.
I think I was going into 9th grade and we had a summer reading assignment before we started school. It was summertime and I think I was in the middle of the Anne series or it may have been another L.M. Montgomery book and I was so desperate to read it. My mom refused to take me to buy the next book until I finished that darn summer reading book. Not even sure what it was, but it was pretty devastating.
I have always loved to run away into books!
April 23, 2009
I was looking for something to read the other day and picked up my old copy of Anne of Green Gables. I started thinking about it. It has been around 20 years since I read it last, which is hard to believe. I enjoyed it as much this time as I did the last time I read it and have moved on to Anne of Avonlea now. That Anne-girl… she is just a breath of fresh air. I have lots of memories of reading these books and watching the movie (in weekly installments on PBS) and just wanting to be like her. And I still do! Lucy Maud Montgomery had to be quite a lady herself. The books are wonderful and just so precious and… lovely. If you haven’t ever given them a try, you should. They are so refreshing. So are the Emily of New Moon books also written by L.M. Montgomery. And then there is Little Women. Also a treasured book of mine. I think I am just going to go down the list till I finish them all again. And pray that Tegan will love them one day as much I as I did and do.
What are some of your all-time favorite books?
