As Connected Families puts it, “if I want my discipline to connect, I have business to take care of before I engage.” So, let’s look at the foundational message of, “Child, you are safe with me.”
Tag Archives: Motherhood
Serving Those Around Us
God’s Big Story said, “We worship God with our actions.” That’s exactly it! God is worshiped by our love for other people. Other people are blessed when we serve them. And as we serve, we get to partner with God in the work he is doing in both their lives and ours.
Seeing God Around Us
As we prioritize teaching our kids about the Lord, we want them to see that he is for them now. This means that we help grow their awareness of him. We want them to start to look for him!
Talking About The Bible
The Bible is something we get to speak to our children about, and read to them from. This is a command, yes, but also a privilege and pleasure.
Playing the Bible
That love of play is a wonderful thing to tie into the love of scriptures! The Bible is full of stories to be acted out!
Moms in the Bible–The Syrophoenician Woman
What faith she had. To believe he was the Messiah and to believe that he would care about her and her situation. She recognized his power and also his goodness.
Reflecting God’s Homemaking Heart
The very act of homemaking, investing in our homes, is a reflection of the heart of God himself. We are imaging him to our family and those around us.
Moms in the Bible–Herodias
All of the other moms that we have studied so far had redeeming qualities about them. Not Herodias. Her story is different from all the others in that she did not acknowledge or believe in God and her life showed it. Hers is a cautionary tale that we would be wise to heed.
Drawing Your Dysregulated Child Close
As I have been doing the hard work of dealing with my baggage and becoming a safe and loving person for my children, I am slowly (emphasis on slowly) learning to draw my children close in times of misbehavior and dysregulation rather than push them away.
Foster Care and Adoption–In Her Shoes
It is difficult to be hopeful for the bio families if we cannot put ourselves in their shoes. If we never see their hearts but only see the wrong actions they took. If we never acknowledge their grief but only focus on ours. If we forget God’s plan for the family and only live in the broken reality of sin.
Lyssa Stoyko 