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"Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored." Titus 2:3-5 (NASB)
~ 2009 Theme Verse ~
"Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass" I Thessalonians 5:24 (NASB)
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•Praying God's Word Day By DayBy Beth Moore
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•For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and SchoolBy Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
•Munich SignatureBy Bodie ThoeneFrom The Zion Covenant Series
From Training Hearts Blog:
"Assignment: Write out some goals that you would like to accomplish. These goals should include your personal goals, but also goals as a family.
While setting goals, try to write out small attainable rewards for each goal accomplished!"
Here's some of mine. I may come back and add more. But here's a start anyway...
Personal Goals 1. My continual goal for my life is to continue growing in the Lord. I am always striving to be more Christ-like.
2. Finish up all the lesson plans I need and want to get done by the end of January. I want to have these things done before our little one is born.
3. Continue to work on my prayer life. I talk a LOT with God. I definitely communicate with Him all the time. But I am trying to pray more for my husband and my children on a regular basis instead of just when there's a specific need for prayer. Does that make sense? I have begun praying more Scripture for/over my husband and children. I want to continue doing this consistently.
4. To continue working on accepting myself for who I am and just be me.
Family Goals 1. I would like us to get back to regular nightly devotions like we used to. Over the last several years, this has pretty much stopped for different reasons. Sometimes, my husband's work schedule just wasn't conducive for him to lead them in the evenings. And there were other things along the way that contributed. But I do miss them. We began to get back into the nightly devotion thing for a little bit when we began our character training. But it's not been consistent like I'd like it to be. So, this is something I'd like to get going again on a consistent basis.
I love reading your posts~ I have the same problem with prayer...I talk to God a lot, all day long most times, but I don't pray enough in front of anyone...It's something I've always felt embarrassed about because I was teased about the way I prayed when I was in my 20's...any the rhyme says words don't hurt! Thank you for writing about that and have a nice Christmas~
sister, i am sorry that you are missing time with you husband. I will be praying for you guys. So you have a little one on the way. How fun. Give yourself grace and have a blessed Christmas. vanessa
Nancy,
I am sorry to hear that you were teased about your praying out loud in your 20's. That's so sad and I'm sorry that happened to you. I used to have more of a problem in praying out loud. However, I actually don't have a problem praying in front of people now like I did in the past. When I was talking about praying Scripture for/over my husband and children, I was talking about doing that more in my private, personal prayer time. But you know, as I think about it, praying Scripture over my husband and children out loud in front of them is a good idea! Maybe I need to do that more!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
Karen
www.homeschoolblogger.com/salt
I'm sure that we all struggle with accepting ourselves and need to spend more time with Him. I think when we do that a lot of our other goals will come full circle. Praying that you and yours will have a wonderful Christmas and that the new year will see your goals fulfilled.
Those are very worthy goals and I hope you accomplish them all. I really like the one for accepting yourself just as you are. So often that is one of the hardest. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
Pam
I need to really work on doing my assignments. This is a good one. I pray blessings on your goals. Yes, family devotions is what I would love to have my hubby lead us in. I will pray for that to come to be. Thank you for being such a sweet friend. I am so glad God blessed me with you this year !
Hello. Hope your having a great Christmas season! I'm finding it hard to get around and say hello to all my friends. Please forgive me if I don't say hello every day - I do stop and read though. Have a great weekend!
I pray for the Lord's grace and strength in working on these goals. We have very similar goals. I didn't know you are expecting another child. Praise God! When are you due? Maybe I'll find out, if I read a bit more on your blog. BTW, I love the name of your blog - the acronym and what it stands for. Blessings, Leinani
The ultimate goal of Christian home education is to train children to impact the world for God. We want our children to not only hear and learn God's Word, but also be doers of God's Word. Therefore, we strive to teach them:
SERVICE - How to serve God and others
ACHIEVEMENT - To do the best they can in all they do from academic subjects to chores to serving others and more
LOVE - To love God and one another
TRUTH - To live their lives based on the absolute Truth of God
The name of this blog is the acronym for these four areas that we strive to teach our children:
S.A.L.T. - Service, Achievement, Love, Truth
