Here is a little exercise that is simple and yet can really help change you, the tone of your home, and the hearts of your children. Take a few minutes and try it...customize it for your own family which will take some real scrutiny of your own life.

On a piece of paper write the word  E V E R Y  in big letters. Using this word, make some nonnegotiable, priority commitments for you and your family. 

 Examples:

EVERY morning I will pray for the gift of joy.

EVERY day I will pray indiviually with each of my children.

EVERY week I will take one hour and just sit outside and watch my children play (weather permitting of course).

EVERY month, at least once that month, we will load up the kids and go on a picnic or a nature walk or to a small town and window shop...something to get us away from the pressures of computer, telephone, and house/school/Daddy's work.

Spend some time in prayer and then please give this a try. Pray that this will give you and your family special teachable and memory making moments.

"If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work."

2 Timothy 2:21