Our Devotions Basket is something new to us this year. At the end of December, I'd looked at my goals for last year and realized I wasn't having devotions with the girls as much as I'd like to. So I started this toward that goal.
Each morning at breakfast, we take turns picking something from the basket and read together. Breakfast seems like a great time--we're a captive audience, and it feels so good to start the day focusing on Jesus. After we read, we pray together--thank Him for the day, pray that we'll make Him happy, pray for any requests we have.
I rotate the books in the basket every few days; there are usually 5-6 books at a time in it. There are so many things it could include!
Bibles: we have board-book versions like My Shining Bible and Baby Blessings Bible; the fun rhyming Growing Reader Phonics Bible
, one of the girls' pocket-sized Bibles they were given by our church when they were born (we read Psalm 23 or a short section of Scripture from this).Blank Journal: to draw pictures or write letters to Jesus.
ABC's: Our homemade Bible ABC book, Bible ABC bookmark from Samaritan's Purse.
Picture of President Obama: to remind us to pray for him (1 Timothy 2:1-2).
Other books: Playtime Devotions
, First Blessings for Your Child
, Baby's First Prayers, Lift-and-Look Jesus Loves Me, other children's books about Jesus.Missionary letters or prayer cards: to remind us to pray for them.
Memory Verse Cards: These are simple versions of verses I've chosen and set to music. I'll do a separate post on this soon.
I'm very pleased at how well our Devotions Basket is working!
How do you plan devotional time with your family? I'd love to hear!
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3 comments:
You are a GREAT Mom!!
What an amazing idea!
I like the idea of having a basket instead of just a pile. I'll have to put my stuff in a cute basket.
We've switched from morning to evening devos with the kids because they are so talkative, wound-up, and noisy in the morning and also because of pre-school. So, every night when they are quiet and more reflective, before bed, we read their Bible story as a family (from the awesome book, "The Jesus Storybook Bible") and pray together and then I read chapters out of the Bible as they wind down and prepare to go to sleep.
When Ali's at preschool I try to read Jer his book "God's Wisdom for Little Boys." We sing a lot throughout the day and pray.
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