Welcome to Tuesday’s Tips,a weekly IDEA SWAP for moms. I hope that when you drop by The Overflow on Tuesdays, you’ll find a gold-mine of encouragement and creative ideas excavated straight from the sticky trenches of parenthood.
Of course a SWAP wouldn’t be a true exchange without many voices. So, please consider chiming in the discussion and sharing your own great ideas. If you’ve discovered a tried and true trip that has made motherhood a little easier, a little more exciting, or a bit more meaningful, please let me know. Just leave a comment after this post or send me an email (rbruxvoort@iowatelecom.net) so I can share your idea in the next swap! I’d love to feature you on an upcoming Tuesday. Let the digging begin!
Our New Year’s PRAYER BASKET
A twinkling tree no longer stands proudly in the corner, and our stockings have traded their fling on the mantel for a long hibernation in the attic. But on a small stand near our kitchen table still sits a bulging basket of Christmas cards. Or prayer prompts, you might say.
Each night when we gather around the table for dinner, one of the kids draws a Christmas card from the basket. We talk about who sent it (many of our Christmas corresponders are long-time friends whom our children don’t truly remember), revisit the precious pictures and re-read the holiday well-wishes. Then, after the card has been dutifully passed around the table for all to see, we pray for its senders.
If my math is correct, we may still be praying over Christmas cards at Easter time! But then, I can think of no better way to carry relationships and the habit of prayer into the new year.
If you haven’t tossed out your Christmas cards yet, DON’T! Gather them up and pray over all the lives and faces behind that holiday correspondence. That may be the greatest new year’s gift you can give someone in 2012.
Great idea – I think about doing something like that and then throw away the cards anyway 🙁 True confessions!!!!! Thanks for praying for me and my family all year long! I’m praying for you! ~Robin
Love this idea…and I have not put the Christmas cards away yet!
Absolutely brilliant idea!!! Love it!!!
My cards are still up….so is my tree! 🙂
Great idea – I think about doing something like that and then throw away the cards anyway 🙁 True confessions!!!!! Thanks for praying for me and my family all year long! I’m praying for you!
~Robin