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Psalm 34

11 Children, come and listen to me.

 I will teach you to worship the Lord.

12 You must do these things to enjoy life

 and have many happy days.

I love the smell of new school books, new paper and the sharp points on new crayons. A new school year is filled with new possibilities. Excitement fills the air. The year has been bathed in prayer, the subjects chosen, the materials for science projects set aside and manipulatives are waiting for little hands to explore them.  Excitement begins the moment the first box arrives in the mail.

And yet this verse comes boldly to the forefront and begs for inclusion. Worship Me declares the Lord! So we go to church and worship Him. Because we want to teach our children to love the Lord, we teach them at home. Yet all too often, we spend too much time on textbooks and not enough time on teaching our children to worship.

We are told we MUST do these things to enjoy life and to be happy. Without inclusion of worship our experience looses the joy and looses the happiness being at home with our children is suppose to bring.

Psalty songs used to blast through my home in the mornings as we danced around the house singing Praises. Jana gets them digging down deep as following the leader becomes a unique act of worship in the hands of a child. And praise from their lips becomes a lesson to us as they freely express their hearts to God. We can learn as much from them as the can from us in this area.

Teaching Worship is a command from God, not the school board. Follow His lead into the new school year. You will discover joy and happiness along with your little ones.