Parenting and Family

The fist verse in Deuteronomy 6:5-7 charges us to love the Lord with all your heart, soul and strength. In fact, in Mark 12:30, Jesus tells us that the greatest commandment is to love the Lord with everything you have. The second and third verses provide guidance to live out this charge. First, we are to keep that commandment on our hearts. It should be at the forefront of our minds everyday. Loving the Lord should help us carrying out all of the tasks we are given in this world. Now in verse 7, we find that it doesn’t stop with us, as parents we are actually called to impress that commandment and others on our children. We are to talk about them when we are at home or on the road, before bed and in the morning.

I love the direction God provides us here in Deuteronomy. I don’t think God is limiting places where we should be talking to our children about Him. “At home” and “on the road” is the same as at the dinner table or in the self check-out line at Target. Either way, God is expecting us as parents to be the ones that instill the love of the Lord in our children. The posts you’ll find in parenting and family are not a “how to” because we don’t have that handbook, nor do we want to create it. But it is a collection of stories about our experiences as parents and our takeaways.