I love color coding events in my life. Excel spreadsheets
make me happy. My different calendars on my iPhone in different colors make me
smile. Why? I don’t know.
I think it might be the perspective of order in my life. I do understand that just because I have
everything all nice and neat on paper it does not mean that life will turn out perfectly
timed in reality. But, for a moment when
I look at my computer screen with all its color coding life is perfectly
ordered.
We all have a lot to balance as a church family. I get it.
We have so many things on our calendars how can you make sure it all
gets done? This time of the year with
holidays, parties, and events every other week, the calendar can be crushing.
As a family we gather together and take a look at what is
most important on the calendar. What
have we committed to be at? What can be missed? What is going to transform our
lives? Then I notice that church is not
on our calendar. Somehow in all my color
coding Sunday morning small groups and church services did not receive a color
on the calendar. I have my Sunday morning
staff meetings marked and I have the scheduled baptisms noted, but church is
not on the family calendar. This really
bothered me when I discovered it. Then I
realized why. It does not need to be on
the calendar. It is a given.
As a mother I want a lot for my boys and our family. I want them to be happy. I want them to play
sports and find some success in that. I want them to enjoy band and learn the
music. Those events are things that we schedule and plan for. My greatest goal for our boys is to have joy
in their life. True joy… the type of joy that can only come from the love
of having Jesus Christ at the center of their lives. So, why is prayer and Sunday morning small
groups and worship not on our calendar?
Well, I realized that not being in church is not an option; it is a part
of who our family is. Church is a stable
of who we are. The church family
supports us in all that we do. I could
not imagine going through life without a church family to support our marriage,
our parenting, and our children. So, I
am thinking that I might just create a new color calendar that is all things
church. Church is what is going to form
my children into the men I desire them to be.
Church is what is going to support me when my family needs it the
most. Church is not a building, church
is the people.
So, in an effort to help you balance your family scheduling
here is the 2016 St. Andrew Children’s Calendar.
Sit down and pencil us in…no use pen!
Make church a priority, because of all the things we as parents want our
children to know as they grow up, is the story of God, and realize they are a
part of His amazing story.
