🌿Breathe Truth🌿
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” —Jeremiah 1:5
🌿Believe Truth🌿
On the plane to San Diego, I settled down in my seat and pulled out my Bible. I love airplane rides. With 4 kids, plane rides mean everyone is buckled in, reading their selection of books, or playing chess. This also means I get to do my quiet time and write while the plane is in motion.
Usually, I open my Bible and start reading without any fanfare. But on this trip, the lady next to me commented how beautiful my book was. Indeed, my Bible has flowers all over the binder as well as inside the pages.
As I’m reading my Bible, I feel this tug to talk to her. The result was an important learning experience.
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Karen grew up in a large Catholic family. She was the second oldest out of 13 children. Seven girls and six boys. Her youngest brother and oldest son graduated high school the same year.
Her mother is in her 80s and attends Mass every day. Many of her family and siblings still live in Boston where she was born, raised, and still lives. She married her husband who grew up as a Catholic “but only went to church because his family did. He stopped attending church as an adult.”
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When she started having children, she would take her kids to church by herself. They have 4 children. When her oldest son was a senior in a Catholic high school and her youngest son was in sixth grade, their lives would change. Karen shared that “something happened,” and she decided to leave the church.
She rationalized and planned it out. She told her 4 children that she would continue to take them to church. But that she herself wouldn’t go. She thought it was a feasible plan. Until…..
“I got a shocking response. They all told me that if Mom doesn’t go to church, we won’t either. So all 4 kids stopped going to church.”
To this day, Karen hasn’t returned to church. Her 4 children hasn’t returned to church. Her grandchildren do not attend church.
From one decision. Three generations were affected.
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Before we were born. Before we were in our mother’s womb. God who created and formed us, already knew us. He planned our life and knew how it would start and end and all the events in between.
God knows our children before they were in our womb. God wants to know your children now.
As a parent, it matters the choices we make. If we stay close to God and journey with Him, our path of faith can be one that our children can see, learn through, platform from, and will traverse as well.
They will have their own path of faith, but as parents, we are often the first believers whom they will encounter who live Jesus and live for Him or not.
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Journey as a family together. Journey with Jesus together.
Trust Jesus together as you the travel in the Real Truth today.