Faith Archives - Darling Little Life

When Chasing Your Dream Gets HARD- 2 Year Blog Anniversary

To all you dream chasers: you church planters, non profit organization founders, business starters, small time bloggers, and someday-hopefully authors. I see you. I’m with you. And I’m wondering if the thrill of your new venture has faded. Perhaps you’re stuck in the grind of everyday monotonous work. The “why” behind your dream has gotten buried in the midst of all that needs to be done. You never realized it would be this hard. You’re feeling a little isolated, unsupported, and a lot overwhelmed now that the “honeymoon stage” is over. Sound familiar? It does to me.

It’s almost Darling Little Life’s 2 year anniversary (hooray!)! I realize that this isn’t going to be the most lighthearted post to celebrate. But it’s honest.

And if I’ve learned anything from you, darling reader, it’s that you’d rather have vulnerability than an image of perfection in this space.

Tools to Share God’s Word With Your Kids + NEW Children’s Bible Review & Giveaway

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. – Deuteronomy 6:4-9

One of the greatest ways to point your children to Christ is to share God’s Word with them. It’s our job as parents, to daily teach and train our children in Scripture and it’s a responsibility we should not take lightly. It can be overwhelming though, to know how to share God’s Word in a way that they can grasp and remember. I’ve got a few creative ways to help:

First off, this might seem obvious, but the best way to Share God’s Word with your child is to consistently read the Bible to them!

Daily, get in the Word together.

Faith

When life brings change (but you’re not ready)

This week, 6 pieces of my heart moved 1,916 miles across the country.

My sister, brother in law, and my four nieces and nephews made a big leap of faith and moved to Arizona. I’ve felt strangely numb through this whole transition, like it’s a bit of a surreal dream. But I’ve also been struggling, because for my sister and I, this was supposed to be our season. I was finally a stay at home mom like her. And she and I could do this ‘raising our kids together’ thing. Cousins as close as siblings, you know? And I’m so desperately excited for them in this new adventure but sometimes its hard being the one left back home.