The series discusses Fuel for our souls - godly habits that we should develop in our lives. This week is Silence and Solitude.
As a pastoral staff we are writing devotions to be emailed out each day (you can sign up for them here), and I thought I'd share mine with you for the week (a preview copy!):
I have two children – Caleb, age 4 ½, and Ellie, almost 3. They are the essence of energy. Anyone that has children, or has been around children, knows how they can run circles around you and still have more energy later…long after yours is depleted.
That being said, I love to play with my kids! Ellie loves when I play princess with her (I don’t dress up like the princess…I am the prince) – we dance the Sleeping Beauty waltz, we try on glass slippers, we’re upset at the mean stepsisters – it fills up her love tank! Caleb loves when I fly spaceships and airplanes around the house, build new train tracks with his Thomas set, or just wrestle with him in the living room. These are things my kids love, and I do them because it helps my children understand how much I love and cherish them.
But do you know what I love? I love to sit with my kids at night and read them a story. I love to hold them close in the morning when they wake up and tell them how much I love them. I love when they look me in the eyes and listen carefully when I have something special to tell them. These things show me that they love me.
There are things I can’t tell them in the middle of a game of hide and seek. Some things they won’t hear and understand when we’re outside swinging or playing in the snow. Sometimes they need to be still and just listen to hear the good things I want to tell them.
When I saw some of Pastor Del’s main verses this week I thought of these things.
Psalm 131:2, “I have stilled and quieted my soul.”
Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God.”
Remember to take time out of your comings and goings to just be still with the best-Father-of-them-all and see what He has in store for you!
AG
