Silas started the week off by going to the emergency room and finding out that he had Croup. He is well with only a little cough now. Liam has been fighting off the same cold and not sleeping well at night. During one of the times this week after receiving some correction, I shared a verse with Liam and as I started to read it, he said, “no, Mommy Genesis 1:1 and so I just said the verse he wanted and moved on. It was a hug from the Lord and brought joy to my heart. We have had lots of extra time at home this week. It was a blessing that the girls had swimming lessons start to get us out of the house for a short time. The girls made some brownies this week with their own hands and only verbal instruction from me when it was needed. As you can see below that girls seemed to enjoy their accomplishment and I love how Ayla cut the brownies. As they where busy with the brownies I was preaching to myself to let them make a mess and not correct them. My heart has been heavy this week to teach by my example and asking myself what does my example show? As it says in John 13:15
Psalms 118:24
"This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it."
Psalm 73:26
"My flesh and my heart may fail, but
God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
Psalms 90:12
"So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom."
3 comments:
Yeah, girls! Fabulous job on the brownies!!! Ooh, that sounds so good! Think I'll make some brownies as a sweet treat for Chuck's Father's Day. :) Miss you guys! So glad we got to see you the other day! Much love!!! ♥
Karen..thank you for sharing what you did...it is so easy for me to just want to "do it all myself" so it gets done right, etc...I really needed your sweet encouragement (and the pictures that went with it!) to remind myself of the blessing of allowing my kids to learn and grow!!!
Karen I love it! What a sweet encouragement you are to my own heart and thank you for sharing becaues it helped me to stop and evaluate my own heart motives...I thought the idea of letting them read the directions and make brownies was great and clever!
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