Our culture says we learn the really important things by taking classes at schools that we pay for. I’m not sold. Instead, I’m now looking for opportunities for my kids to have the same kinds of hand-on learning I got as a teenager.
Category: Parenting and Family
We’re going to make her beautiful again.
It was just over 20 years ago when a couple from church I hardly knew asked my brother and I to help them remodel their 100-year-old farmhouse. It started during a fundraiser for our youth group at church.
A really, really compelling reason to say YES.
We ask them for ideas, inspire them to dream, tell them Jesus wants to do something amazing through them… and then tell them no way. It costs too much. It’s too hard. It’s not fun for me. I’m busy. I’m tired. Maybe next year.
What I learned from See You at the Pole.
We’d pray for our classmates, our teachers, our school, our government, and our nation. People who I had never heard pray out loud prayed out loud. And in the end, we all ate donuts and went to class as usual.
Day 4: Pray for boldness, and assure them
Our kids are longing to take risks and to stand out. But for too long we have struggled to minimize their risks, and cause our children to fit in.