A great goal for the week of April 18-24, 2011: Turn off your TV (and computers, single player electronic games, and cell phones?) and spend some quality time with your family. To maximize the potential for a successful experience parents are encouraged to plan ahead a little. Otherwise it may be difficult not to give in when children demand to turn on the TV or other electronic devices. Here are a few basic items to have on hand. Board games appropriate for
Adam and Eve were created to live forever. Because they chose self – to go their own way, they had to die. All of mankind has followed in the footprints of Adam and Eve, choosing to go their own way. Some turn back to their Creator, but not all. Our mission in life is to learn to die to self and learn to give control of our lives back to God so we can live with him forever. Father God, help us learn
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 (NIV) This verse came to my attention at one of the down times in my life. I prayed for relief from serious financial problems as I clung to this verse believing God was going to send an angel down a moonbeam or something to rescue me, yet the problems continued. An answer eventually came four years later, but there was going to be no easy out. As
Your best chance at pulling off an April Fools trick is early in the morning. (I’ve already missed out on that… I should have written this yesterday.) If it isn’t too late for you already, try putting food coloring in your children’s breakfast food – green eggs and ham or purple milk… Maybe you could roll up socks and put them in the toes of their shoes. The best part of pulling this off is that you can give your kids
How easy it is to take weather for granted. Haven’t we all been caught off-guard on occasion when we opened the door to leave for work and discovered we should have dressed warmer… or cooler… or planned time to defrost the car’s windshield? Our children can get caught off-guard in the same way. In this day of easy access to information parents can create some meaningful and mutually useful family time by making a weekly weather calendar with their children. A