As we were running around town yesterday, doing our errands I noticed something. It appears, that retailers believe, Valentine's Day is as important as Christmas. There are as many aisles of red, sparkly hearts, singing monkeys, and heart shaped boxes of chocolate as there were nativity scenes, Christmas trees and wreaths just a few months ago. 
How do we teach our children to differentiate between the feelings of "love" the world throws at them and the true love that God has for us?
We decided to start where we should always start. Even though we sometimes forget. In God's Word. We know, "Love is patient, love is kind......", but to truly have those words hidden in the hearts of our children, so that they have a solid foundation on which to compare the world's flimsy attempts of love versus God's true definition of love, is what we want most for our children. We are going to be memorizing 1 Corinthians 13 together. I pray that I can truly love my husband and my children even on those days when they seem "unlovable". Because I know, that my Savior loved me when I was.
Would you like to join us?
How do we teach our children to differentiate between the feelings of "love" the world throws at them and the true love that God has for us?We decided to start where we should always start. Even though we sometimes forget. In God's Word. We know, "Love is patient, love is kind......", but to truly have those words hidden in the hearts of our children, so that they have a solid foundation on which to compare the world's flimsy attempts of love versus God's true definition of love, is what we want most for our children. We are going to be memorizing 1 Corinthians 13 together. I pray that I can truly love my husband and my children even on those days when they seem "unlovable". Because I know, that my Savior loved me when I was.
Would you like to join us?
1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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