You may be wondering what Christmas lists and prayers have to do with each other. Great question! Hang tight – if you haven’t figured it out yet, I love a good analogy. For the last 2 weeks our kids have been honing their Christmas lists. They’ve been scouring catalogues, noting TV ads and filling a note pad with ideas. I gave them free reign to list even the most outlandish ideas, like a “real live puppy (a lab of any kind)” and another trip to Disney. Then, we divided the lists into “wants,” “needs,” “things to wear,” “things to read or learn,” and “things to do.” After all this, the…
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Does God Take Delight in Your Garden?
In my last post I wrote about being gardeners in our children’s lives, planting seeds of faith in their hearts. But as I thought about that analogy, I realized it could be applied to our own lives also. So, let’s take a look at our gardens. What is planted in our gardens? How is it doing – dying, surviving or thriving? And how can we help it to flourish? Maybe yours is a garden that was once planted well with choice veggies. You were given good seeds, and they were put into a well-nurtured environment. But as life took over, you forgot to tend to the garden. Now, even though…
