Play Time

Too often today, children are starving for real life and drowning in the midst of an empty one.

When they are constantly using technology for entertainment, children’s brains have been shown to slow down because they are overstimulated, and their undeveloped eyes and brains cannot process what they are taking in. Children need to be outdoors. They need time to be bored. They need to be around books, have lots and lots of imaginative stories read to them, and then have time to act out the stories. They need lots of time with adults so that they can pattern their values and manners and relationships after mature people rather than always being in the company of immature children or exposed to digital images that display violence, foolishness, and questionable values.

May all children be blessed with the gift of play, imagination, free time, and the space to be outdoors to explore. May they wonder at the marvels of God’s creation. May they have the treasure of real human beings who hold their hands while they explore the world, who rock them to sleep and sing them real songs and scratch their backs at bedtime and tell them their own love stories. And may they daily hear the words of their Creator God, marvel at His excellence, and grow to love Him with all of their hearts.

His Promises

There is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God.

You will show me the way of life,

granting me the joy of your presence

and the pleasures of living with you forever.

This is the day the LORD has made.

We will rejoice and be glad in it.