I've been reading Robin Sampson's HOWTA   while exercising on the elliptical, and I came across this passage:

Peter said the Word of God is nourishment like milk or meat (1 Peter 3:23). To help you really grasp the importance of this truth, I'll ask you to imagine for a minute this picture: Visualize a baby starving to death, like those you see on television in third world countries. Now imagine that there is a bottle of rich nourishing milk on the table that would save his life and comfort him, but his mother leaves the bottle sitting on the table because she things it's too much trouble to give it to him. Visualize that image every time you feel tempted to skip Bible study. Paul told Timothy that we are nourished by words of faith and good doctrine (1 Timothy 4:6). God's Word contains nourishing life-giving power - don't withhold it from your baby. Feed your children!

So I have to question, are we starving to death?

Well, no, I don't think we're STARVING, but are we fully nourished? Are really doing better than just surviving?  If I fed my kids food only as often as we were reading God's Word, they'd be lethargic and sickly, they wouldn't be as strong as they are.

So why do I hesitate to be daily in the Word with them? I guess I had never really visualized God's Word this way. I didn't see that He gives us every breath we take.

The older boys are at camp this week. They're being fed God's Word where I've failed, but I've got the littles. I should read them a Bible Story every day. I should study God's Word with all my children.

I personally am reading God's Word most days. I assign the boys Bible reading during the school year, but what they do now that we've put down our formal studies, I don't even know.

Robin's words were a real eye-opener for me. I've got to make some changes.