Grace has started another AWANA year! She is thrilled to be back in the swing of things with Cubbies. She is now in the four year old class which means that she has to memorize verses AND the references! She is a champ and memorizes things much more easily than her mother – she must be like her daddy! She always wants to do the review section as well as her regular new verses…. we practice everyday at school time so she is really ready to go. It was really fun this week to show her where the verses are in the Bible. Genesis 1:1 was really easy to find and she can do it by herself – even with the many pages of study guides in my Bible.
Hannah has started the two year old program called Puggles. She has been doing a great job. She enjoys going to be with her friends, hearing Bible stories and singing the Puggles Song. I downloaded it from the internet so we can sing it at home to! She doesn’t know many of the words yet, except for the part that she yells “PUGGLES!!!!!!” She knows that part really well… you know when she is singing it no matter where she is in the house.
What can be better than having your children learn God’s Word and hide it in their hearts? One of my goals for my kids this year is to give them reasons FROM SCRIPTURE for why we do things. We back up their disobedience with verses to match the “crime”. I am trying to let them see that they need to obey mommy and daddy, but in reality it is MUCH bigger than that…. they MUST OBEY GOD! HE IS THE ONE WITH THE ULTIMATE RULES!! Don’t we ALL struggle with obeying HIM? I don’t want them to obey me just because it is the right thing to do or they fear the discipline, I want them to obey because they love God and want to please Him. I want their hearts to be molded after His… that is quite a job! Filling their hearts and minds with Scripture and bathing them in prayer are two vital ingredients in this!
On the first night of AWANA!
Hannah got her Puggles shirt last week…. (pictures from Daddy’s phone!)
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