This Thanksgiving, our family is SOOO thankful for all the family and friends God has given us!! Thank you for making our lives so full of love!!
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Tylers
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! This year we started a tradition of the Thankful Tree. It's been really awesome everynight before we go to bed to think of something each of us is thankful for and then reciting the verse together "Give Thanks in All Circumstances". Below you can see the transformation of our tree.
This Thanksgiving, our family is SOOO thankful for all the family and friends God has given us!! Thank you for making our lives so full of love!!
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Tylers
This Thanksgiving, our family is SOOO thankful for all the family and friends God has given us!! Thank you for making our lives so full of love!!
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Tylers
Monday, November 13, 2006
Laying Bricks or Building Cathedrals?
I just got this in the mail from Family Life Today and I thought it was a good reminder of why we named our blog Raising Arrows!
Laying Bricks or Building Cathedrals?
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.
Psalm 127:4,5
Parents today need God's perspective of children. I think many of us can relate to the story of a man who went door to door asking for donations for a new children's home. At one house he met a tired, beleaguered mother who responded, "I'll tell you what I'll do. I will give you two children." That is how many people feel about children some days. On one hand we say, "We sure love kids." And then we turn around and complain, "They sure cost a lot, and man, you have to deny yourself to raise kids." It's as if we don't really believe ththat we are "blessed" when our quivers are full of children.
Children are divinely placed gifts, not accidents. They are a privilege. Barbara and I may sometimes feel that kids get in the way of life, but in reality they are part of the life that God is bringing to us everyday. They are on loan with a divine purpose. A man saw three men working with mortar and bricks. He went to the first man and said, "What are you doing?" The man replied, "I am laying bricks." He went to the second man and asked him the same question and the worker said, "I am building a wall." But the final bricklayer had a different answer: "I am building a cathedral."
In the process of raising kids, it is very easy to feel like you are just laying bricks. In reality you are building a cathedral, a child whom God has given you to train up to carry on in the next generation. There is no greater privilege in life.
Laying Bricks or Building Cathedrals?
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.
Psalm 127:4,5
Parents today need God's perspective of children. I think many of us can relate to the story of a man who went door to door asking for donations for a new children's home. At one house he met a tired, beleaguered mother who responded, "I'll tell you what I'll do. I will give you two children." That is how many people feel about children some days. On one hand we say, "We sure love kids." And then we turn around and complain, "They sure cost a lot, and man, you have to deny yourself to raise kids." It's as if we don't really believe ththat we are "blessed" when our quivers are full of children.
Children are divinely placed gifts, not accidents. They are a privilege. Barbara and I may sometimes feel that kids get in the way of life, but in reality they are part of the life that God is bringing to us everyday. They are on loan with a divine purpose. A man saw three men working with mortar and bricks. He went to the first man and said, "What are you doing?" The man replied, "I am laying bricks." He went to the second man and asked him the same question and the worker said, "I am building a wall." But the final bricklayer had a different answer: "I am building a cathedral."
In the process of raising kids, it is very easy to feel like you are just laying bricks. In reality you are building a cathedral, a child whom God has given you to train up to carry on in the next generation. There is no greater privilege in life.
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