Our New Devotion

We've been doing a new family devotion called Jesus Calling For Kids. I've seen the book around. I've heard good and bad things about it. However, I found it at Ollie's for $2.99 so I bought it for a family Christmas gift. We had such a joyful time doing our Advent devotion, I wanted to be sure to keep it up once the new year started. Since everyone has taken turns being sick since Christmas, we start by praying for another family member. Whoever closes the prayer, prays for everyone. I really love this. Everyone picks a different person to pray for every night. It's definitely a bonding time. The boys really enjoyed lighting the Advent candles each night, so we are keeping a similar path. In Jackson's Sunday School, they made these really pretty candles. We put the biggest one into the Forks rocks container.

We turn off all the lights and read and pray by candle light. It makes distractions less distracting. The book is basically written as if Jesus is writing the words. There is a verse, the devotion, and then Bible verses. The two readers take turn reading the verses and then we discuss. It only takes about 10 minutes start to finish, but it's been a wonderful ten minutes every night! And if we miss a night, it's easy to catch up since they are so short.