Posted in Train Up A Child Thursday
Sanctify them in your truth; Your word is truth. John 17:17
S.O.A.P NotesNo, I haven't decided to change jobs and move to the medical field. Different SOAP notes. A few years ago, my sister Stephanie encouraged me to do soap notes while reading through the bible. Although it was a great idea, I have to admit I didn't make it very far before I stopped, so I'm determined that with the new year approaching I'm going to try again. But this time, I'll have my 2 oldest join me and help keep me accountable! So today's Train Up A Child Thursday is about my continuing efforts to train my children to make bible reading a regular part of their day.
S is for Scripture. Each day, mom will read 3-5 chapters beginning in Genesis and Lukas and Eden will read one chapter, probably starting in Psalms or Proverbs. The idea is to pick out a passage or verse that is meaningful in some way and write it down.
O is for Observation. What do you observe in this verse, or what is it that made it jump out?
A is for application. How can you use this in your everyday life?
P is for prayer. Write a short (even 1-2 sentence) prayer asking the Lord to help you apply this truth to your life.
My plan is for them to do this after lunch each day, before we do our history read out loud and catechism practice. Trinity will spend this time doing a half hour of quiet book reading time, either in her bible or another book (her reading skills aren't quite up to her new bible, but she's working on it!). I will do my soap notes with them for a the first few days, but I should probably be doing it early in the morning before the kids are even up. We'll see if that happens! They will show me what they've done when they're finished, hopefully I can help them keep some of the things they are writing down in their minds during the day. I'm going to shoot for doing 7 days a week, but they will only do 4 (not on the weekends or co-op day). I'm going to get them each their own lined book and a cool gel pen that they can only use for soap notes.
So we'll see how it goes! Consistency is the key!
Posted by Janice
