Back in the Saddle Again... for a while anyhow!

With a computer breaking and life happening, my blogging life has been in pause mode, with the exception of a short clip here and there. So for my faithful readers er... I mean, reader, I apologize. But there is just no way around pauses in life! For now, I will try to write down everything I have been storing in my brain without going into overdrive- one blog at a time. First off, Treasuring God in our Traditions was a great book with so many wonderful examples of how to honor God in our "everyday" traditions and our "especially" traditions.

Now, I am no special thinker or writer and I can say I am not particularly gifted in any one thing (although I wish I were gifted in just one some thing special), the fact is, I am not. I draw on everyone else's gifting. There are many excellent blogs and books out there that will give far better examples of how their family does special things for their traditions and how they honor God through them, but in my humble little blog, and in my humble little family, I want to share what I am doing in my home for our special traditions.



Noel Piper gave us examples of why Traditions are so important " You can't bequeath God to your children. You can leave them the fur coat from your mother, the forested acres from your father, the carved cane from Uncle Claude, and the clock from your grandmother, but they can't inherit God from you. God can only be inherited from God...Now although God we cannot bequeath God to our children, we can help them know him and understand him in ways that prepare them to believe in his name."



To love God with all of our hearts and pass him on in the daily and special moments of our family's life.



Looking back in my life, there are some traditions that became important to me and I have carried into my home ; though not necessarily traditions intended to treasure God. I carried them into my home because they were so dear to me and in turn, I can point God out in them and widen my children's eyes to the Lord. For example, my Father used to read the Chronicles of Narnia almost every year to me all the way into my teenage years. That was tradition to me- Now, I read it to my children, but I point out the goodness of God in pointing us to the cross even in a fairytale children's book. I point out that God gave CS Lewis such a gift to create a world for their imaginations to be able to accept the gospel message through Lions, witches, and kids such as themselves.

I want to mention a few more, but for now, I'll wait until tomorrow, oh yea! no more promises of blogging consistently! Until next time! (hopefully tomorrow!)