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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Fun & Games

A joyful heart is good medicine.
Proverbs 17:22

Don't feel like the only way you can cause your children to think and engage with you is through serious teaching. Bring up a wacky topic at the dinner table one night and see where the conversation goes. Get them thinking about making good choices over a game of Twister. Examine the creativity of God by asking them how many different faces they can make.

A great, satisfying part of parenting is learning how to make good use of fun. Laughter is God's lubricant for the soul. Fun reduces friction when a parent wants to get an important truth in his or her child's heart. Learn to laugh - a lot.

One of the best ways to get your kids to seriously consider the serious things you want to teach them is to make sure your not so serious with them all the time – establish and enjoy their relationship!

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Hope Reborn

He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry.
Isaiah 30:19

My mother, Naomi Songer, died late one night at the age of 84 after a 10 year decline in her health. We got the call about 3:30am that night. But it wasn’t one of those calls that wakes one frightfully in the middle of the night when you know you’re about to receive some very bad news. You see, the call came just 5 days after the birth of our twins, Abigail and Jonathan. We had been up most of that night with the usual tasks of diaper changing, breast feeding, burping, and rocking back to sleep, responsibilities that come with parenting infant twins.

I flew out to my home town the next day with my 2 year old son, David. The next few days held within them all the emotions of writing an obituary, going through my mom’s belongings, making her burial preparations, directing the memorial service, and giving my testimony of her love in my life at that service (while holding my toddler in my arms). It was exhausting. I returned home to the “peace and joy” of helping my sweet bride (whom I had left at home alone with the then 2 week old twin babies). That was almost 18 years ago – it doesn’t seem possible.

Whenever I recall to family and friends what I was feeling during that tumultuous week 18 years ago I say: "What a contrast of emotions - from the grave to the cradle. I'm grateful to God for how that week concluded – a return home to new life. It was a great reminder that there is life after death."

We don't always see these extremes in such close proximity. But the truth remains that in God's economy, life follows death. Hope follows loss. Whatever you've endured, God has heard "the sound of your cry." Await new life.

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