Have you had
your Joy Juice today? Children love the
taste…please share some with them!
You don’t
have to be around me long before you know that I LOVE CHILDREN! I had the
privilege of working in the elementary & primary schools in our community
for many years. My husband, Papa Pat and I have three grown children and six
grand children….who I affectionately call our “grandJOYs”. There is not much in this life that brings me
more pleasure than being around children.
SO, that’s
what I’d like for us to concentrate on this week….praying for our children,
grandchildren, young friends or relatives.
Many times I think we miss the importance of covering our young people
in prayer. Raising small children is no
easy task. It’s a full time job, with
little time for rest. Parents receive
little appreciation for the constant assignment of child-rearing….yet it is the
most rewarding job on earth!
If
you find yourself in this season of life, know that you can depend on God to
give you wisdom when you most need it; to fill your heart with love and
compassion and forgiveness; to place on your tongue words of encouragement and
edification. Some things might have to
go undone…I can promise you that they will not remember the dust on the
furniture, but they will remember you holding them and reading them Bible
stories. They will remember the sound of
your voice as you pray with them and for them.
Proverbs 22:6 tells us to: “Train
up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from
it.”
Make sure that your children
are drinking the JOY JUICE of Jesus…and be an example by drinking it
faithfully, yourself!
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