Ruth and Naomi

What a privilege it is to teach our children about God's Holy Word and to train them up in the Lord! Hannah and Lauren's favorite time of day is after dinner when they have "Bible time with Papa." Every night after dinner Hannah says something like, "Can we go brush our teeth and then have a Bible story?" As you can imagine, that is music to our ears as parents. Tim is an amazing teacher and is a master at explaining things. It blesses my heart to watch Hannah's eyes fixed upon her Papa's eyes as he shares with her about stories from the Bible. Many times tears of joy fill my eyes and a huge smile covers my face as I observe what is going on. The girls are learning about the love of their heavenly Father through the love of their Papa.
During the days, the girls and I do a variety of learning activities in preparation for official homeschooling one day, and I tell them Bible stories some days. They are also learning Bible verses. They have memorized many verses that are put to song, and we are now working on saying the verses without the music. Last week they learned the following verses: 1) "Do everything without complaining and arguing so that you may become blameless and pure children of God" and 2) "A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones." At one point last week, Hannah said, "When we fight (referring to when she and Lauren don't share sometimes) our bones dry up. I want to have a joyful heart." :)
One of our recent Bible stories was about Ruth and Naomi. The picture you see for this post is Hannah dressed up as Ruth and Lauren dressed up as Naomi. It is so much fun to have precious children and to train them up in the Lord! We are blessed, indeed!