A Grateful Family Heart
A Grateful Family Heart Ever wish your family showed a little more gratitude? You can nurture thankfulness in your family! Why wait until Thanksgiving? Here are few ideas to get your family in the mood for gratitude: Grab a notebook or a journal and label it the Family Gratitude Journal. Leave it on the kitchen table and encourage everyone to join in the thankfulness. To get started, choose a family time (a family meal, a special dessert) to kick off the journal. Be sure everyone...
Read MoreBalcony or Basement: The Way We Speak
Balcony or Basement: The Way We Speak I interact with countless people everyday. Students, parents, colleagues, my own children, my husband, the cashier in the grocery store. And everyday I have a choice to make. Balcony or basement? Will my response lift someone up or pull them down? So many times a day, a look, a smile or frown, or an answer empowers me. I often don’t even realize that what I say and do will affect those around me. Oh, I get the big stuff – the compliment, the insult,...
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A Perfect World… “Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.” (Elisabeth Elliot) When I’m discontent, when I long for more, help me remember that it’s simply part of the wooing. May I not long for the things of this world and...
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