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A Little Worship Experimentation!

July 28th, 2008

This year I have been very consistent with giving each of our children alone time each day, to think, create, sleep, talk to God. It has become an essential part of our daily rhythm. They all look forward to it, whether they think they do or not. They few times I have pushed it from the days’ activities, they have suffered.Let’s be honest, we all suffer! I see it in their attitudes and mine too. Our oldest no longer sleeps, our middles still sleeps about 3x’s as week and our youngest still naps most everyday, although I try to keep it short. Regardless, they get the privileged of having some alone space. We don’t nurture that enough in people today. It is okay and good to be still, quiet and alone.

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There are a few new things I am adding into their routines. One of them being a deeper immersion into worship with music. I admit that I have not been drawn to “children’s worship” cd’s. They seem cheesy to me, however, the kids really enjoy hearing their own kind singing to the Lord. So I got over myself and starting investing in a few cd’s just so they hear children singing to our Holy God.

Today during quiet time I put a new CD on, and played it in the hallway outside of their rooms, as they worked away. After quiet time Jackson said to me, “Mommy, I really like that CD. It helped my creativity. Can we do that everyday during quiet time?”

So I am thinking - YES!

A little worship music goes along way to drawing children into the presence of the Lord. Little ones and big ones too!

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  • 1. Dana  |  August 1st, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    What a lovely idea! Now if we just had the space to give everyone alone time. Can we do it in shifts? It might not work so well.

    My daughter (the eldest) seems to need it the most. On a nice day, I let her go up on the roof and read. She makes herself a little tent and can spend an afternoon up there with her ponies and books. (We have a large flat roof over the sunroom.)

  • 2. Amber(Homeschool Diva)  |  August 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 am

    Dana,
    I have done it in shifts and I will do that again in the fall. It actually gave me really focused one on one time with specific children. I used to think I didn’t have enough room, until I just rethought about it about. The roof is a lovely idea.

    I think you can experiment but you may really like it in shifts.I think for me, it is really important that they see Mommy having time to herself too. The realize my life doesn’t always revolve around them too. Another good thing:-)


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