Good day dear friends.
Here is today's text (and by the way, there was no University of The Way this week in order to allow you to catch up on your readings!):
Proverbs 22:6 Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray.
All of my children make me proud, but I was especially proud of Carli, who is on the road this week in Houston, recruiting students for Texas Lutheran University. Prior to her visit to my alma mater, James Madison High School (yes, home of UT's Vince Young), she went by to see my dad and then told him she was going to go and buy lunch for the two of them. After the school fair, for lunch she went and bought food for the two of them. My dad called just to say how Carli had made his day and how happy he was. My dad lives alone and is paralyzed on his left side. A once active, strong man, a stroke left him in this way. He is very lonely and misses my mom terribly. He looks forward to "going home" and being with the Lord and with Mom. He appreciates all visits. Carli making time to be with her grandpa made me very proud.
The Bible makes an incredible promise that if we "train children in the right way," when they are old, they will not stray. I suppose most of us know it from the Revised Standard Version, "6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." The key word is train. Our children learn from example and ours is the best teaching one available. Didn't you want to be just like your dad or mom? And didn't you enjoy the day when you realized that mom and dad weren't so dumb after all, they did know what they were talking about?
The "right way" is the way of the Lord. If your child sees that Christ and His church matter to you, it will matter to them. If you child hears positive comments about those who work for the Lord, they will have positive comments about them too. You will shape their perspectives and perceptions about life for the better. The list goes on: Is Sunday school a priority for you? If tithing something you've already trained your children about? We sat next to a cute little girl in church on Sunday and her mother gave her a dollar to place in the plate as it came around. The little girl hesitated and the mom held the girl's hand and showed her that now is the time and here is the place to give.
PRAYER: Loving God, for the precious gifts of children we are thankful. For the gift of knowing the right way, the way to life, we are thankful as well. May we continue to set the example for others in all that we say, think, and do. We ask this in Jesus' Name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
Here is today's text (and by the way, there was no University of The Way this week in order to allow you to catch up on your readings!):
Proverbs 22:6 Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray.
All of my children make me proud, but I was especially proud of Carli, who is on the road this week in Houston, recruiting students for Texas Lutheran University. Prior to her visit to my alma mater, James Madison High School (yes, home of UT's Vince Young), she went by to see my dad and then told him she was going to go and buy lunch for the two of them. After the school fair, for lunch she went and bought food for the two of them. My dad called just to say how Carli had made his day and how happy he was. My dad lives alone and is paralyzed on his left side. A once active, strong man, a stroke left him in this way. He is very lonely and misses my mom terribly. He looks forward to "going home" and being with the Lord and with Mom. He appreciates all visits. Carli making time to be with her grandpa made me very proud.
The Bible makes an incredible promise that if we "train children in the right way," when they are old, they will not stray. I suppose most of us know it from the Revised Standard Version, "6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." The key word is train. Our children learn from example and ours is the best teaching one available. Didn't you want to be just like your dad or mom? And didn't you enjoy the day when you realized that mom and dad weren't so dumb after all, they did know what they were talking about?
The "right way" is the way of the Lord. If your child sees that Christ and His church matter to you, it will matter to them. If you child hears positive comments about those who work for the Lord, they will have positive comments about them too. You will shape their perspectives and perceptions about life for the better. The list goes on: Is Sunday school a priority for you? If tithing something you've already trained your children about? We sat next to a cute little girl in church on Sunday and her mother gave her a dollar to place in the plate as it came around. The little girl hesitated and the mom held the girl's hand and showed her that now is the time and here is the place to give.
PRAYER: Loving God, for the precious gifts of children we are thankful. For the gift of knowing the right way, the way to life, we are thankful as well. May we continue to set the example for others in all that we say, think, and do. We ask this in Jesus' Name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
