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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
About Life4Him-Moms Encouraging Moms: From "moms of sons" to "moms of seniors"
About Life4Him-Moms Encouraging Moms: From "moms of sons" to "moms of seniors": Hello everyone! I thought I'd give a little update on Moms Encouraging Moms. Last night a group of mothers of sons met to begin a six week B...
From "moms of sons" to "moms of seniors"
Hello everyone! I thought I'd give a little update on Moms Encouraging Moms. Last night a group of mothers of sons met to begin a six week Bible/book study on "5 Conversations You Must Have With your Sons." I was excited to be able to attend it and I'm looking forward to all that I'm going to learn. One of the reasons that I was so excited about it was because of all who were there. When we met for our first Mom's meeting a while back to evaluate the needs of the mothers in our church, one of the biggest needs mentioned was how to parent boys and raise them to be godly men. One of the blessings to me about the Bible/book study was that the women who asked for encouragement in this area actually came and an added blessing was that many other women came, too!
Sadly, our society is failing our boys... We, (their mothers), must take an active role in teaching them and guiding them to go against the way of the world and become the men of God that He created them to be. God has blessed us with the privilege of raising them and with that privilege comes a huge responsibility. It can be daunting at times, but so worth it in the long run. Praise the Lord for all of the moms who are striving to raise up godly men!!!!
Speaking of raising our children to adulthood...
I am beginning to plan another evening for Moms Encouraging Moms. I don't have the date or time yet, but I'll tell you the topic now....I would like for any moms of seniors to have a time to meet together and talk about our changing roles as our students graduate. It's an emotional time for me as a mother to Bethany, my graduating senior, who is supposed to still be 10 years old. I think we would all benefit from talking together about how fast the time has gone and how to be handle and encourage each other along the way in the coming months. I'm looking for a home and a date to meet. If you think this would benefit you or if you would like to host the evening, let me know. I think maybe a Tuesday evening for about an hour or so might be good, or maybe a Saturday morning brunch. I'd like for it to be soon because life is just going to get busier in the next few weeks. Let's try to make it happen:)
Sadly, our society is failing our boys... We, (their mothers), must take an active role in teaching them and guiding them to go against the way of the world and become the men of God that He created them to be. God has blessed us with the privilege of raising them and with that privilege comes a huge responsibility. It can be daunting at times, but so worth it in the long run. Praise the Lord for all of the moms who are striving to raise up godly men!!!!
Speaking of raising our children to adulthood...
I am beginning to plan another evening for Moms Encouraging Moms. I don't have the date or time yet, but I'll tell you the topic now....I would like for any moms of seniors to have a time to meet together and talk about our changing roles as our students graduate. It's an emotional time for me as a mother to Bethany, my graduating senior, who is supposed to still be 10 years old. I think we would all benefit from talking together about how fast the time has gone and how to be handle and encourage each other along the way in the coming months. I'm looking for a home and a date to meet. If you think this would benefit you or if you would like to host the evening, let me know. I think maybe a Tuesday evening for about an hour or so might be good, or maybe a Saturday morning brunch. I'd like for it to be soon because life is just going to get busier in the next few weeks. Let's try to make it happen:)
Thursday, April 19, 2012
5 conversations You Must Have With Your Sons
I wanted to take a quick opportunity to encourage any mother's of sons to consider attending this Bible study. When many of us met to share our needs as mom's with each other, one of the needs was for moms of sons to share their concerns with each other....We met once with raising sons as a topic and now I'm so happy to let you know that this Bible Study is being done with YOU in mind. I hope many of you will try to attend...I'm sure there will be many things to learn, both from the study itself and from each other. Details are below.... 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Son - is a women's Bible study for moms who desire to help their sons build foundations of faith that will equip them throughout their lives. Author, Vicki Courtney, helps you prepare to talk to your son about the tough topics — because even though knowing what to say or how to say it can be hard, there's no one better to teach him about life, love, and faith than you. Mondays @ 7 pm - Starting April 23 The member book also offers variety of between-session activities that build parenting skills and biblical understandings. Book cost is $11 and will be provided on first day of class. Meet at FBC. Facilitated by Monica Richardson. |
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
My Encouragement for Today
I feel like I have been a bit neglectful of this blog (and even more neglectful of my other one at skits and scripts 4 Him), but I have an excuse. For the last several weeks, I have been busy with one huge endeavor after another. They have all taken many hours for my family to complete and, I must say, by God's grace, they all turned out rather well. D-NOW was the biggest and most time consuming event. It is now over and I can take a breath for at least a moment. Writing on this blog had to take a back seat, so that I didn't go completely crazy.
With all of that said, I hope you'll forgive me for not keeping up with my posts. I have a lot of topics that I'm hoping to write about and I still hope that this will be a place where we can all find encouragement to be the women God wants us to be.
Today, my encouragement is this: Remember that most of the things our children learn are "caught" not "taught," so in order for them to catch the right things, we have to be heading in the right direction ourselves in order to "expose" them to it. It reminds me of catching a cold...most of us would rather NOT catch one, but if we are exposed to someone with a cold, there would be a chance of us catching it. If we are never around a person with nasty cold germs to share with us, it would be unlikely for us to catch a cold. We might still end up sick with a cold, though, because it is possible to get one without being exposed to one from someone else, but our chances are higher if we are "exposed."
We need to expose our children to the things we hope that they will learn...WE, as in ourselves, need to be the ones that are modeling the behaviors that we hope they will catch. The worst thing that we can do is tell our children to "do as I say, not as I do"...They will resent it and I can almost guarantee that they will grow up learning to "do as you do" instead of the other way around.
If we want our children to serve, then we better be serving. If we want our children to be respectful, then we need to be respectful. If we want our children to have positive attitudes then we better have positive attitudes. The list can go on and on, but those are some of the big ones on my list.
We, as grown ups, need to stop having a double standard about these things. We may want to teach our children to be respectful, but if we really examine ourselves, we fail at being respectful a lot. How many times are you tempted to think that what you have to say is so much more important than what someone else has to say. Isn't that disrespectful to them? I know I am guilty. How many times do you complain about things and then reprimand your children when they whine or complain? I'm guilty again. What about serving? Do you serve others with a happy heart or do you expect others to serve you and meet your needs?
These are just some things that have been on my mind...things that God has been convicting me of and things that I have noticed in others. I hope that these questions don't bring discouragement, but encouragement. Sometimes we need to ask ourselves questions and evaluate where we are in our quest to raise our children into adulthood. If being respectful, servant minded and staying positive were diseases, would our children be in danger of catching them from us? Would they even be "exposed" enough to catch it? Maybe we need to make sure we are "infected" first, before we expect it out of them.
With all of that said, I hope you'll forgive me for not keeping up with my posts. I have a lot of topics that I'm hoping to write about and I still hope that this will be a place where we can all find encouragement to be the women God wants us to be.
Today, my encouragement is this: Remember that most of the things our children learn are "caught" not "taught," so in order for them to catch the right things, we have to be heading in the right direction ourselves in order to "expose" them to it. It reminds me of catching a cold...most of us would rather NOT catch one, but if we are exposed to someone with a cold, there would be a chance of us catching it. If we are never around a person with nasty cold germs to share with us, it would be unlikely for us to catch a cold. We might still end up sick with a cold, though, because it is possible to get one without being exposed to one from someone else, but our chances are higher if we are "exposed."
We need to expose our children to the things we hope that they will learn...WE, as in ourselves, need to be the ones that are modeling the behaviors that we hope they will catch. The worst thing that we can do is tell our children to "do as I say, not as I do"...They will resent it and I can almost guarantee that they will grow up learning to "do as you do" instead of the other way around.
If we want our children to serve, then we better be serving. If we want our children to be respectful, then we need to be respectful. If we want our children to have positive attitudes then we better have positive attitudes. The list can go on and on, but those are some of the big ones on my list.
We, as grown ups, need to stop having a double standard about these things. We may want to teach our children to be respectful, but if we really examine ourselves, we fail at being respectful a lot. How many times are you tempted to think that what you have to say is so much more important than what someone else has to say. Isn't that disrespectful to them? I know I am guilty. How many times do you complain about things and then reprimand your children when they whine or complain? I'm guilty again. What about serving? Do you serve others with a happy heart or do you expect others to serve you and meet your needs?
These are just some things that have been on my mind...things that God has been convicting me of and things that I have noticed in others. I hope that these questions don't bring discouragement, but encouragement. Sometimes we need to ask ourselves questions and evaluate where we are in our quest to raise our children into adulthood. If being respectful, servant minded and staying positive were diseases, would our children be in danger of catching them from us? Would they even be "exposed" enough to catch it? Maybe we need to make sure we are "infected" first, before we expect it out of them.
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