WORDS HAVE POWER – Children’s Devotional
Words have power. God ‘spoke’ light, water, land, plants, seeds, sea creatures, and land animals into existence. Our words may not have God’s miraculous power but they are still powerful.
SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY – Children’s Devotional
Snowflake Bentley is a man from my hometown. He was fascinated with snow crystals. In 1885 at the age of 20 years old, Mr. Bentley became the first person to ever take a picture of a single snowflake. He went on to take thousands of photographs advancing the world’s knowledge of weather, meteorology, and snow crystals. He found that no two snowflakes are exactly alike and of course, neither are people.
CREATIVE DESIRES
What is it you like to create? Do you like to sculpt? Make music? Re-purpose thrift store finds? Do you like to dress really well? Do you enjoy painting, home decorating, or putting on makeup? Do you like to write or garden? Do you meticulously mow the lawn to create a design? However our creative juices flow, do you realize that those creative passions are because we are made in His image? We are made in the image of the ultimate of creative geniuses, our God.
FAITH AND WORKS
What are some of the things you want? Do you want a new job? A spouse? Children? Do you want to drive on the Autobahn? Visit Hawaii? Do you want the house to clean itself or someone to cook for you? Do you want an addict to become unaddicted? Do you want healing for yourself or someone else? Do you want a position? Do you want to overcome a specific behavior? Do you want restoration in a relationship? Do you want to play the piano, learn German or be a better golfer?
CAMERAS ARE EVERYWHERE
Cameras are generally put in place to document wrongdoings. Traffic cams catch speeders, bank cameras catch thieves, nanny cams catch abuse. God watches not to catch us but to help us, to bless us.
IN PIECES OR AT PEACE?
We live in a broken world. We are a broken people. Every loss, disappointment, hurt, rejection leaves us more broken. Fear, insecurity, anxiety, worry, and repeated memories of our bad past experiences can keep us broken. Repetition of the same mistake over and over again may keep us broken. We may be broken people living in a broken world but we don’t have to live a life shattered in pieces. We have been given a special peace.
LOVE IS IN THE INTERRUPTIONS
I drop the kids off at school, then I go for a quick walk rehearsing in my mind the items I need to get at the grocery store. I may have to go to two stores to get the best prices. After I get home and while the groceries are still in bags on the counter, I am thinking about meal prepping for the rest of the week. Wait, is that my phone? Why is she calling, she usually just texts me?
PIPE CLEANER OR CRAFT STICKS? – Children’s Devotional
If I asked you to take a rubber band and put it over your right and left pointer fingers then
I LOVE A PARADE
I love a parade. I love to watch a parade in all its glorious, colorful, noisy pageantry and I love to be in parades. I love to walk, wave, smile, greet, support, and pass out candy, bracelets, or other trinkets. I have been in kiddie parades, pet parades, holiday parades, and a waving, smiling, clapping spectator in so many more. My heart is always deeply touched and I am often moved to tears when I stand and applaud the veterans honored in a parade or the military flyovers. Sometimes, my eyes get watery as I watch children forming lifetime memories for their experiences in the joyful festivities.