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Everyone slept much better last night... Yea for sleep! Yesterday in the office was a day of catch up on responding to emails, returning phone calls, updating calendars, etc... One of the blessings from yesterday was with my youngest son (age 6). Over the past few weeks members of our Crossroads congregation have been praying for kids as they prepare to enter back into school. Folks were asked to write down a child's name on a small rock we had on the altar and these kids were remembered in prayer. Last Sunday we got to give the rocks to the kids with their names on them so they will know someone has been remembering them in prayer. We found our youngest son's rock in the bottom of his backpack... and he understands what that rock with his name on it represents.
My reading took me to Psalm 104 and gives praise to God for how He sustains the earth; His creation. I read how His creation looks to Him for what is needed. It is not a far stretch for me to see that I must have the same dependence on God for the well being of my children. I look to God for the help that they need... and I hope to foster that same dependence on God within each of my kids.
My devotional reading today dealt with choosing to do what is right according to God's Word verses going along with what is legal according to man. Doing so will test our commitment to the Lord. The devotional ends with a quote, "We must choose daily the way of the cross over the way of the crowd." Oh, how I pray this courage and commitment for the lives of my children. And I realize that I must first demonstrate this in my own life before I can share effectively with others. Example is leaned best by what we do rather than by what we don't do.