My wife and I , like so many couples, began our families not knowing the future - we go thru the "motions" and do the best we can. The early years of our 4 children found their mom baking chocolate chip cookies most every nite and bible stories before bed. We shared our testimony of God's saving grace in our lives and bringing our children to an evangelical church for services and bible study till they were grown and moved on out of our home. We like all , have had our "ups and downs" in raising kids, we failed in many ways and did good in other ways --
We didn't read the latest "best seller" in KID RAISING but what we did do right, was "saturate" our family with love - God's Love, and my wife gets most of the credit for being "solid" and consistant even when I would "drift" from being the best example.
All this is to say this --- Our oldest daughter has 6 children, she along with her godly husband has raised their "kids" in the house of God, home schooled, and saturated them and their home with LOVE -- she is not perfect, she has had "ups and downs" but her life, her testimony, is SOLID. Always looking to be a blessing to someone , she is constantly making an effort to bring HONOR to God's Name by the way she lives -- her children , ages 3 to 17 are the most affectionate , well mannered "KIDS" -- so it's "neat stuff" this bible promise of "raise up a child in the way they should go" --
The acorn dosen't fall far from the tree :-)
Is this not also the testimony of LPP and Lil Montreal Girl ! - with the Homecoming of their dad recently - their home as we all know is one of Christian Love --
Terry's too and many others -- different instruments in the symphony of God's Orchestra -
Reflecting on GOD , HIS Ways and HIS LOVE this Sunday evening --
passing-thru
btw : Our other 3 children have also raised God honoring families as well -- thanks to their Mom and God's Grace -------------
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Dear Passing-thru.
As you know Bernie and I unfortunately had no children.
Gracey on the other hand had four children and when was widowed about the age of 23 she raised those children well and this is exactly what she did.
The same as you. They read the Bible by turn every night at the supper table. She read them Bible stories. They were raised without the downfall of the television.
She read them Dickens and good nourishing books.
When I had to go to Amanda's school interview because Gracey had to go to another's daughters school interview the same night, the teacher told me that Amanda who was in grade five at that time had been tested "Literature" wise and had a grade 12 understanding of it!
Amanda once took a Christian story book to school and the teacher read it to the class for several days. It was called "Little Dot" by Patricia St John" and it was just chuck full of the gospel!
Gracey sent each of the four children to piano lessons and taught them a lot about getting along with each other and a lot about loving nature. They had birds and music and love and books and love for each other
Of course Gracey went to Sunday School with them just as Mom Golden had done with her nine children
You are right Passing-thru...What better a life could children have than this!
God was the head of the home and that was everything!.........from Terry
PS You don't know how happy you have made us coming back!!
Thanks Terry ---
I forgot the password for posting on pilgrim pals but would rather just comment on blog sites anyway -- not sure how much I want to maintain a "blog" lol ---
my email Terry is :
passing-thru@live.com
Hello Passingthru!!! So good to see you! And to see your blog! Thank you for your kind words for our family!
Love and Prayers,
LPP
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