Wow! I was just "touched, moved, challenged, pleased" by a blog referenced in an article in hermeneutics found through Christianity Today. "aholyexperience.com/2012/05/bible-reading-as-a-family-devotiona/"
I don't know the author at all. But when she writes about her family's daily practice of reading the Word of God together, she makes me wish I could start our family life all over again. Learned from his father, her husband introduced his rare family tradition into their marriage from the beginning.
They never rise from eating "dead food" before eating from the Living Bread. After every meal, Scripture is read - a few verses or more. Their family has practiced this habit for, it appears, at least two decades. With small children and with teens, the tradition continues. In the midst of busy lives, they maintain "eating God's Word" after every meal. Given our need to be shaped by the Living Word, it is a marvellous family practice.
I've never thought of the food I eat as dead food. But it has been picked, plucked, cut or torn from the tree, bush, ground or animal. It is not alive. Not a pretty adjective, "dead" food. But it makes a startling, helpful contrast to the Living Word that we don't eat often enough.
As one who struggled to sporadically have our family read Scripture together after one meal a day, I recommend the article to you.
Read her blog just for the pleasure of being reminded that as we open Scripture we are spiritually eating God's living words. Read it to be encouraged again that the Bible deserves a major place in your life and mine.
I don't know the author at all. But when she writes about her family's daily practice of reading the Word of God together, she makes me wish I could start our family life all over again. Learned from his father, her husband introduced his rare family tradition into their marriage from the beginning.
They never rise from eating "dead food" before eating from the Living Bread. After every meal, Scripture is read - a few verses or more. Their family has practiced this habit for, it appears, at least two decades. With small children and with teens, the tradition continues. In the midst of busy lives, they maintain "eating God's Word" after every meal. Given our need to be shaped by the Living Word, it is a marvellous family practice.
I've never thought of the food I eat as dead food. But it has been picked, plucked, cut or torn from the tree, bush, ground or animal. It is not alive. Not a pretty adjective, "dead" food. But it makes a startling, helpful contrast to the Living Word that we don't eat often enough.
As one who struggled to sporadically have our family read Scripture together after one meal a day, I recommend the article to you.
Read her blog just for the pleasure of being reminded that as we open Scripture we are spiritually eating God's living words. Read it to be encouraged again that the Bible deserves a major place in your life and mine.
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