At Home and On the Road

Our kids: Ben, Rebecca, and Dan
May 1993

"Commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of Mine...Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up." (Deut. 11:18-19)

Last night's texting:

Me: "Tell kids we're reading The Tiger Rising." 

Rebecca: "We're reading The Tiger Rising, too! We love it!!"

Me: "It's the coolest thing reading books 'together'."

Rebecca: "What chapter are you on?"

Me: "Chapter 9"

Rebecca: "We're on Chapter 12. I think.

Me: "God is so good. I'm grateful."

In 1993, Phillip and I packed kids and a stack of books into our Ford mini-van and traveled from Arkansa to Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, South Dakota, Missouri, and back to Arkansa (visiting extinct volcanoes, the Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone National Park, Devil's Tower, and Mt. Rushmore) - all in one week! 

Reading Hinds Feet On High Places proved a highlight of the trip. When antagonist Much Afraid encountered a hind and hart, Jesus strategically placed a buck and doe on the roadside for us to see. When fog surrounded Much Afraid, fog swaddled our Rocky Mountain highway. What an awesome God!

The best book we ever read together by far was, is, and forever will be God's book: the Holy Bible.

Got family, beloved? Read God's Holy Word - together!