For 31 days I am writing to my children,
my future grandchildren, great, and all my great-grandchildren.
my future grandchildren, great, and all my great-grandchildren.
It's 7:45 a.m., my oldest is ready for school. We will leave for the bus in 20 minutes. In the meantime he is beside me on the love seat. He cuddles. His 14yr old arms are not "too cool" to be wrapped around me.
The girls, on the couch, are still in their jammies- a luxury of home schooling. Josie is covered in a cozy blanket, snuggled up in Emilie's lap. Emilie is running her fingers through Josie's hair.
I read half a chapter of Voyage of the Dawn Treader aloud. I know they'd rather be doing anything else, but I need this time before I blink and life pulls us in different directions.
After some C.S. Lewis, I grab The Message, flip open to pour a bit of the Word into them; to pray it over them.
"Stay with what you heard from the beginning, the original message. Let it sink into your life. If what you heard from the beginning lives deeply in you, you will live deeply in both Son and Father. This is exactly what Christ promised: eternal life, real life!
I've written to warn you about those who are trying to deceive you. But they're no match for what is embedded deeply within you- Christ's anointing, no less! You don't need any of their so called teaching. Christ's anointing teaches you the truth on everything you need to know about yourself and him, uncontaminated by a single lie. Live deeply in what you were taught.
And now, children, stay with Christ. Live deeply in Christ.
From 1 John 2, The Message
This is my prayer for you today. Let God's Message sink into your life, Live deeply in Christ, and find that you really live! I pray in the Saving Name, Jesus, Amen.
Live in Peace,
Posts from 31 Days of God-giver:
Day 1- Reap What I Sow
Day2- Get To Know God
Day3- God is God.
Day 4- Wrap Your Arms Around Him
Day 5- Pray. Don't Think, Just Do It.
Day 6- Find Your Voice
Day 7- I Am a Mountain Goat
Day 8- I ♥ Being Fabulous
Day 9- Grandmother's Hands
Day 10- "The Talk"
Day 11- Don't "Rip the Pants" Off Your Man
Day 12- I Drempt You
Day 13- 3 Word
Day14- With All You've Got
Day 15- Temperature
Day 16- He's Got This
Day 17- I Will Be Glad
Day 18- Emilie's Words To Her Children
Day 1- Reap What I Sow
Day2- Get To Know God
Day3- God is God.
Day 4- Wrap Your Arms Around Him
Day 5- Pray. Don't Think, Just Do It.
Day 6- Find Your Voice
Day 7- I Am a Mountain Goat
Day 8- I ♥ Being Fabulous
Day 9- Grandmother's Hands
Day 10- "The Talk"
Day 11- Don't "Rip the Pants" Off Your Man
Day 12- I Drempt You
Day 13- 3 Word
Day14- With All You've Got
Day 15- Temperature
Day 16- He's Got This
Day 17- I Will Be Glad
Day 18- Emilie's Words To Her Children
Day 19- Fertile For The Changes
Day 20 & 21- O I Need Thee
Day 22- I Know Day
Day 23- Tangible God
Day 24- It's Not Coincidence
Day 25- A Humbling Fall
2 comments:
such an important lesson, denise! let His message *sink in*... nothing could be better!!
So true. I hate blinking. This whole motherhood thing moves WAY too fast.
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