31 Ways to Grow Your Family’s Faith Through Summer Fun – Being Still
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Summer. Life moves slower, time is more plentiful, and the days never seem to end. Summer is the perfect time to be intentional in building faith and in building relationships while having some fun, too.
We are having a beautiful day here in the mitten, and since I loathe winter, I try to get outside to drink in some of this beautiful summer weather as often as I can. My kids happen to love it when I slow down and just enjoy life alongside them, so this is a great activity. Maybe your family will love it as much as mine does.
The great thing about this activity is that all you need is a blanket, a Bible, and a day that is not raining. Hopefully you have that today.
Grab your blanket and head outside. Have everyone lay down on the blanket and just close their eyes.
Take as long as you wish – two minutes, ten minutes, or thirty minutes and have everyone share what they hear as they are being quite and listening. Maybe it will be birds, nearby construction, the dog across the street, or even a train, but the idea is for everyone to focus on their sense of hearing. It is amazing what you can hear when you take a moment to just be still and focus only on that.
Share with your children how reading God’s word is similar. Spending time in God’s word is a quiet and peaceful activity, but it is also a time when being still will bring things into focus that we may have missed otherwise. God tells us to be still, and it is when we are still that He can best speak to us.
Read Psalm 46:10 to your children, which says, “He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Close your time in prayer, thanking God for the Bible, your sense of hearing, and spending time together just learning more about Him.
You can find day one’s post about loving extended family members here.
You can find day two’s post about finding refreshment using ice cream here.
