I was not born with a concise spirit. Truth be told, I like to ramble. Especially when it’s a subject I love, or when I’m trying to explain something to my children…
Which is why I really appreciate God Gave Us Love and God Gave Us Christmas, both children’s books by Lisa Tawn Bergren. Both handle big subjects with grace – grace I wish I had when I spoke to my children about them!
God Gave Us Love is a sweet book that has a little bear named Little Cub learning about love from her Grandfather – God’s love, family love, even love for those you don’t really want to love. It has some great explanations about love, which I personally think is hard – because love is such a big subject. The book does jump around a little bit (there’s not a long story or narrative, but how it gets from one explanation to the next is a little jumpy sometimes), but it still does a great job sharing with children about God’s love and how to apply it in our lives.
God Gave Us Christmas was the book Elias asked for again – and it was a joy for me to re-read it to him! This book clearly points everything about Christmas back to God (and it doesn’t ignore or “ruin” Santa for those who choose to include him in their Christmas celebrations – we don’t, but Elias asks questions about Santa, and the book gave us another chance to talk about the character of Santa in Christmas celebrations today). In this book, Little Cub and her mom go looking for God, and find Him everywhere! The descriptions and explanations are fabulous in this book – my favorite of the two!
And here’s my disclaimer: these books were provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group, but the opinions I shared are completely my own.
We’re trying a Jesse Tree this year.
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We’re reading advent the liturgical advent readings every night at family dinner with a single lit candle. My daughter asks every night, “Can we read more of the Bible?” when we are done. Praise Him!
We have a Jesse Tree that we do – one ornament for each day. It is a simple and yet very profound way to reflect on WHY Jesus came.
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We love doing little crafts each day and other family Christmas activities
We do a Jesse Tree. I just blogged about it! It is such a special time for us!
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