We have come up with an easy system that allows the kids to dig into the Word on their own during their morning routine. I am going through the One Year Bible. I give the kids the option of reading the same passage as me or something of their own. I also gave them a chart with all of the chapters of the Bible so they can mark them off as they read them. They each have a devotional journal which they decorated. (Pictures below) In their devotional journal they write what passage of the Bible they read and write at least one sentence about their reading. They ask themselves--what does God want me to know, do , or be? and write the answer. Then they pick one verse from the reading, any verse they want and write it down in their journal as well. To finish, they pray and ask God to help them apply what they learned and to meditate on their verse all day. That is it. I know, it is simple. But it seems to me that people try to make it so hard that sometimes that keeps them from implementing anything. If you can't find just the "right" way to do it, you end up not doing it all. Well, I finally came to realize that there is no right way. It is just about sitting at the feet of God and seeing what He wants to show us through His Word. We do spend additional time digging into the Bible during school time and really studying it, but this simple devotion time just gets us all starting out our day on the right track, by putting our relationship with God first.
I am sure we will get caught up on school work next week, but for now I am thankful that we are doing this everyday, if nothing else. And the cool thing, they are also getting reading, reading comprehension, and writing just from this one thing. That's a cool bonus.
Here are our devotional journals, which we each decorated:
Ian (5)
Christian (7)
Anthony (11)
Taylor (13)
Dawn (32) LOL
Cindy Rushton