Happy Valentine's Day! What a perfect day to reflect on the biggest love the world will ever know: the unending, far-reaching, never-giving-up love of GOD!
This month's HomeFront Magazine can help us take a minute out of our busy week to Remember and Celebrate the priceless LOVE of God.
Our group chose to do the activity on pages 6 & 7, "Love Letters" of this month's HomeFront Magazine (a Spiritual Parenting Resource).
We read about God's love from our HomeFront Magazine (page 7), then picked 3 favorite verses about love (out of the hundreds God put in there).
Several kids volunteered to read the scriptures while we soaked up what they meant to us. I simply wrote them out on little paper hearts like a love letter from their Heavenly Father.
And as we chose our yarn colors, glued them onto the wooden letters and wrapped the yarn round and round the edges, I believe our hearts were remembering that God IS love. LOVE is His very nature. There are so many "Love Letters" in His Word, written to tell us that His Love will never end.
And to remind us that even when we don't get it right, even when we make a mess, His love is always bigger and stronger than anywhere we fall short. His love is a love we can model our lives after.
Because sometimes when a 4 year old tries to follow your lead, it gets a little jumbled (note the "L" below). But God's love is bigger than perfection, it is God's power made strong in our weakness.
And its message reminds us that "Love comes from God and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God." {read 1 John 4:7-10}.
How can we model God's love today? Everyday?
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us." ( 1 John 3:16a)
Read a few of God's "Love Letters" today with your kids:
Romans 8:28, Ephesians 3:17-21, 1 John 3:1, and 1 John 4:16.
