Lead By Example (& a Giveaway for You!)

By on July 7, 2010 in Uncategorized

We have been getting our little backyard garden ready for planting and the boys have been getting in on the fun. While daddy has been doing most of the hard work, tilling the ground and using the big people tools, the boys have been watching. One little boy in particular has been observing his daddy very closely.

Daddy was using the big garden trowel one day to turn the dirt and before long I looked outside and there was my two year old son with a potato masher. He was tilling the dirt just like his daddy. Okay, maybe it was not just like his daddy, but the potato masher looked strangely like the garden trowel and in his mind it was probably one and the same.

Daddy was moving dirt around the garden with a shovel one morning and I happened to look outside later to and catch a glimpse of that same two year old boy carrying around spoonfuls of dirt.

Our boys are always copying what we do, so I would make the assumption that they learn by observation. As I was thinking about this, I stopped to consider what they are observing on a regular basis. Am I being a good example?

The other thing that crossed my mind was the tools that I am giving my children. Am I equipping my boys with the tools they need to survive in life or are they going to need to seek an imitation like my son did with the potato masher and the spoon?

Am I modeling a true relationship with Jesus where my children can learn by the example that I set? Am I providing them with the tools that they need to have an authentic relationship with Jesus for themselves? This is my heart’s desire. What am I doing about it?

How can you give your sons the tools they need to have relationship with Jesus?

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Boys and Mud

By on June 24, 2010 in connection with boys, Life Lessons

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For the past few weeks, our children have enjoyed playing in the backyard and digging in the dirt almost daily. All the children love playing outside, especially the boys.

This week it has been raining, so they have not been outside to play hardly at all. Boys, rain, and dirt equals mud. My boys love mud, my living room floor, not so much.

Two of our boys ventured out to play in the rain this morning. One was in shorts and neither one of them bothered to put on shoes, they just went outside and danced in the rain. What started out as a perfectly harmless adventure with something pure, turned into a disaster pretty quickly.

Dancing in the rain led to the boys playing in buckets of water that had collected. That led to dirt being dumped into the buckets of rain water. Then they started pouring the buckets of dirty, muddy, rain water down a make shift ramp and all over the ground. Before long, they were slinging mud. They played for awhile and had their fun. It didn’t take long before they grew tired of this excitement and succumbed to the cold. They were completely covered in mud and needing a nice hot bubble bath.

I couldn’t help but see the parallel to sin. You add in just a little bit of dirt to the pure water and you end up with a bucket full of mud. Then you play a little more with sin and spread the mud around. Before you know it, you are covered in mud and so is everyone around you, and you are in much need of a nice hot, soapy bubble bath (aka Jesus).

We have an such an important job to do as moms of boys to teach them right from wrong and show them what things the Bible calls sin.

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