What are your family resolutions for this New Year? Are you making any changes? Setting new priorities like eating more meals together, having family time, getting along better? The New Year can hold such promise, but only if we work at making the most of it. Maybe it’s time to start fresh, clean the slate, change our priorities. And we don’t have to go it alone, God is with us on this journey and is ready to help.
What is it take to make changes to our family dynamics? I shared 4 things that are important to bring our families into the kind of family God intended.
1-Give Yourself to Christ
Parents, before we can make great changes in our families, we need to start by giving ourselves to Christ. If we do not nurture this relationship, we'll not have the strength or the tools to develop our families. With Christ, we are capable of so much more, to become better parents.
2-Give Attention to Your Character
1 Timothy 3 reveals what God expects of Godly parents. We must have integrity when we deal with our families, by teaching with both our words and our actions and they must match.
3-Give Time to Your Family
Find out what your family likes to do, go on vacation, sit at the dinner table, play a game, throw a ball, whatever it takes to give your time. We cannot just depend on "quality" time, it doesn't come except within a quantity of time. Spend time with them, on their turf and show important they are.
4-Give Your Love Away
Don't be afraid to say "I love you." You may believe that your kids and your spouse know this already, but never take that for granted. Tell them, every day, with your words and your actions.
To follow these simple things our family takes on a whole new perspective. Our families take on the characteristics that God desires. Sit around the dining room table this week, share your lives together and bring your family to Christ.
Peace ><>
PC
2 comments:
Yesterday afternoon I was caught....yep...caught red handed by my own son. My charge...doing one thing, saying another. Plea...guilty. Didn't I listen to PC today... I was asked....yes I did I answered. Twice in fact. Hmmm...guess I didn't get the message loud and clear. My son was right...I was wrong. Another lesson learned from my son.
While I must have not gotten the message loud and clear...someone in my family did...and because of that it prompted discussion in my family....so the message is getting through. We are learning, we are growing. Everyday God gives us a chance to grow, a chance to learn a chance to love.
I forgot to mention just how humbling it is to have children. They remind us all the time of our failures, of our broken promises, of our rash decisions. They sure keep us on our toes.
PC
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