My Battle Plan for "Beating" My Kids...(at the battle of the wills)
#1 When a "random" piece of Scripture starts popping up every-which-way I turn, I begin to think, "There's something the Lord wants me to learn from this." #2 It's sometimes like a jigsaw puzzle, and when the picture comes together I see a new way the Lord is working in my life, and in this case, the life of my children. My Battle Plan The background : One day, our oldest son was riding next to me in the van. I began teasing him by whispering his name, then turning and acting like I hadn't done it and that I thought he was crazy for thinking I had. (Silly teasing...anything to try and break his new found stoicism. :) ) This brought to mind a story from the Bible that I hadn't heard or thought about in a good, long time. Actually, I even needed the boys help to nail down that it was a story of Samuel when he was still living in the temple with the priest, Eli. Read it here: 1 Samuel 3 "Yeah, that's a cool story," I though