Restful Sleep
Do you ever feel like you’re being swept up in society’s relentless pace? Maybe you swipe through a social media feed and view the filtered lives of others and feel like you’re not accomplishing enough. Or perhaps someone or something is trying to fill the squares on your calendar before you have any say as […]
God created us for rest. He designed mechanisms into our bodies and minds to ease us into the evening and toward restorative sleep. He masterfully engineered hormones like melatonin and cortisol to work together in helping us to accept His invitation to circadian rest. Yet sleep does not always come naturally, and our children are […]
When your child is afraid of the dark, here are three Scriptures and songs to comfort them with God’s Word.
Many of us grow up with different images in our minds of the first Christmas. We might picture a starry night, a tumbledown stable, and a tiny infant wrapped in swaddling clothes. But beyond the starry hosts of heaven, we also encounter a multitude of promises Christ came to fulfill, including His promise to us […]
As we help our kids hide God’s Word in their hearts, they will have hope in all circumstances and answers to their questions about life. Here is a powerful way to help your child memorize eight promises from God’s Word…
The quality of our sleep affects every area of our lives. When it is disrupted by anxiety, stolen by insomnia, or haunted by nightmares, each facet of our days and nights feels it. God created us to thrive through restful sleep. This is why, in Genesis chapter two, we observe God, after having worked […]
My husband and I had tucked our son into bed hours ago. We sat with family and friends in the adjacent room, visiting over Thanksgiving leftovers and pie. Then his scream pierced through our conversation. This was only the beginning of my son’s night terrors. Over the next two years, this scene would repeat itself, […]
Enjoy a Peaceful Evening Listening to Scripture Lullabies God created us for rest. All throughout Scripture we can see this theme. It is an invitation to regularly return to His respite and restoration. From the very first day of the very first human, God created a pattern of rest. While God rested on the seventh […]
Battle Nightmares with Scripture Lullabies It is an incredible experience to watch a child’s imagination grow. And yet, sometimes this part of childhood can bring with it frightening and anxiety-ridden nightmares. Sometimes these paralyzing experiences come completely unexpected, without warning or reason. Many times they materialize from gaps in a child’s understanding of the world […]