Our family has been very blessed to be a part of an amazing
church for the past eight years. We all
look forward to going each Sunday, and part of what makes the experience so
rich is that our children are learning eternal truths through fun and practical
ways.
The middle-schooler’s are lead by
wacky people who love to utilize the shocking to make the lessons stick, from
slime to banana mashing, the young teens love it! We are happy, if not slightly grossed out by
some of the activities, but our 13-year-old son is continuing to flourish in
his love of the Lord and knowledge of His ways.
For the younger children, Kindergarten through 5th,
the church focuses on teaching three main truths, and while all are of primary
importance, one of them has been resonating with me over the past week. This precept is “I need to make the Wise
Choice.”
After having all three of our
children learn this over the past (near) decade, it has come to mean a lot to
our family as we see how truly wise this concept is. I have called upon this concept in my counseling/coaching work, and I have also used this concept when evaluating what
will be helpful or not to my own situations.
So, I figure that it only makes sense for me to share this
saying with you, so that you, too, may benefit!
Before you say something that you aren’t
sure you should say, or before you do something that you are not sure if you
should do, consider the question, “What is the Wise Choice?” Simply stopping to think about this concept
can help us all to avoid making decisions that might be better off left
avoided.
I hope my kids never forget this phrase, and I am sure that
I am going to get lots of mileage out of it over the coming years! “I need to make the wise choice.”
