Church and Broken sprocket and pool and pool

I was happy to remember that I can listen to Candlewood at 9:15 before I go to church at 10 with Nancy.  The sermon was on stress and I ws thinking that I really don't have any stress these days.   BUT I had made plans to meet Gail and Bruce at 11:45 at 4 seasons when we got home from church .... AND at 11:35 Pastor was still going strong.  I was feeling stressed.  So I used what pastor had given thanks for earlier in the service and texted them that if they were feeling stressed they could pick me up at church.   Problem solved.  They got there and we took the 5 minute drive to Broken sprocket where we listened to music and ate from food trucks.  Nice noon.  No stress ....  At home I read by the pool, then at 6 I played pool with Gail, Bruce, Fay, Jerry and Tom.  I called Denny after that.   I stayed at the card room and worked on a jigsaw puzzle.  Denny said he had NEVER known me to work on puzzles.  YUP!!! I have reached a whole new level on having nothing to do.   GOTTA LOVE TEXAS LIFE, no stress.  :)

Don’t feel sorry for or fear for your kids because the world they are going to grow up in is not what it used to be.

God created them and called them for the exact moment in time that they’re in. Their life wasn’t a coincidence or an accident.

Raise them up to know the power they walk in as children of God.

Train them up in the authority of His Word.

Teach them to walk in faith knowing that God is in control.

Empower them to know they can change the world.

Don’t teach them to be fearful and disheartened by the state of the world but hopeful that they can do something about it.

Every person in all of history has been placed in the time that they were in because of God’s sovereign plan.

He knew Daniel could handle the lions den. 

He knew David could handle Goliath.

He knew Esther could handle Haman.

He knew Peter could handle persecution.

He knows that your child can handle whatever challenge they face in their life. He created them specifically for it!

Don’t be scared for your children, but be honored that God chose YOU to parent the generation that is facing the biggest challenges of our lifetime.

Rise up to the challenge.

Raise Daniels, Davids, Esthers and Peters!

God isn’t scratching His head wondering what He’s going to do with this mess of a world.

He has an army He’s raising up to drive back the darkness and make Him known all over the earth.

Don’t let your fear steal the greatness God placed in them. I know it’s hard to imagine them as anything besides our sweet little babies, and we just want to protect them from anything that could ever be hard on them, but they were born for such a time as this.

~Alex Cravens