Showing posts with label Harried Household. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harried Household. Show all posts

The Family in the Harried Household

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  • Posted by Tim
  • Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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    • In the message last Sunday, Pastor Tom mentioned a book that his family has read and re-read until it was tattered and torn. What is a Family by Edith Schaeffer is one of those little gems that helps you understand the deeper meaning that may be hidden in your harried household. For this week's faithnotes, we pull from an article written by Schaeffer. We hope it will give you encouragement in your household.

    What is a family? It is a perpetual relay of truth! Watch the children as you organize a relay race, a running contest in which lines of children wait as one from each line runs a distance and returns to hand the baton to a team member. Back and forth they run and pass the baton. Relay RaceIf one drops it, there is a forfeit of returning to the starting place. What excitement is generated, as those finished (or waiting for their turn) watch to see how soon the baton will come back, groan when it is dropped, cheer when someone falls and skins a knee and then pops up bravely to run on again.  This is a relay race in which it matters whether one person gets there, because if the baton is not handed on, the next person can't start on his or her part of the course.
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    Hope for the Harried Household

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  • Posted by Tim
  • Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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    • "Wisdom is not listening to wise sayings. And wisdom is not writing notes on the hearing of wise sayings. Wisdom is not the amassing of journal pages of pithy statements of insight. Wisdom never truly becomes wisdom until it is put to work in one's life."

    Written to provide navigational wisdom for safely and successfully traveling the troubled waters of life, Proverbs is a "user-friendly" manual of insight. But perhaps in our numerous readings of this collection, you have noticed that it is designed to give us glimpses of multiple topics, yet rarely categorizing and grouping them for simple contemplation. Having not been present when the Spirit guided the construction of the book, we can only speculate as to His purpose for this design. I suspect that at least one explanation is that we are to read and think deeply on a statement/declaration, rather than simply accumulate topical lists of related statements. To read Proverbs is to be challenged to think Proverbs with a mind to apply/live Proverbs. It is a "user-friendly" manual of insight.
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