“Now It’s Personal!”
The
students are enjoying the latest Box Top Contest here at school where they earn
pretend snowballs to pretend throw at other classes in a big pretend snowball
fight. They are doing this all while
raising money for our school by bringing in Box Tops.
Well,
last week, Kindergarten decided to throw one at the school office. I mentioned to the students how I was “going
to get them back” in the next few days.
Looking back, maybe I shouldn’t have done that since the office now has
a whole bunch of “snowballs” thrown at us by various grades. I even caught a small group of 1st
Grade girls taping snowballs to the office door, and I “chased” them down the
hall. You should have heard the screams
of laughter and excitement.
Thursday,
last week, I came back to my office to see that 5th Grade decided to
not just involve the office, which includes Mrs. Knopf and Mrs. Howard, but
they came right after me alone. See my
office door and the school office door!
This
reminded me of how we have a personal God who loves us, forgives us, and
promises us eternal life. He doesn’t
just love us. He loves me. He doesn’t just want to hear our prayers. He wants to hear my prayers. He hasn’t only
prepared a place in heaven for Christians. He has prepared a place in heaven for me.
Remind your kids of God’s love for each of them, but trying to explain
that to them is easier if you believe it yourself. “For
God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
John 3:16 Now, that’s personal!
Family
Discussion Points!
Talk
about what it means to have a personal conversation instead of a public
conversation with a friend. Talk about
how that relates to prayer with God being very personal where you can just talk
to him like you are all alone with Him and nobody else.
Discuss
your thoughts on God being the God of the world or universe as well as the God
of you. Do you like having a God that is interested
in you as a person? Why or Why not?
Keep
saving Box Tops! We appreciate itJ
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