Wednesday, December 21
Ring of Truth
Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:1
In Lessons From My Parents, Stephanie Porter recalls a time when she and her brothers were frantically trying to put on their snow gear to go outside and build igloos and ride their sleds. Their mother stopped them. She had lost her wedding ring and was frantically looking for it. She asked the children to kneel and pray with her. They did so, and as soon as the “Amen,” was finished, they jumped up to resume dressing. “My five-year-old brother slipped a foot into his snow boot and immediately pulled it back off,” Stephanie wrote. “He turned the boot upside down and out slipped my mom’s wedding ring.… We momentarily forgot about the snow and ran excitedly to show our mom that our prayer worked.”
It was a lesson that transcended generations. Stephanie continued, “Now that I have my own kids, I teach them about faith. We pray every day before school, meals, and bedtime…. I hope my daughters will learn faith from me, as I learned it from my mother.”1
Imitate Christ so your children can imitate you and learn to serve Him.
1Lessons From My Parents, edited by Michele Robbins (Familius, 2013), 5-6.
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