Do your children need to be encouraged with a love for reading? Why not gather your children around and show them these wonderful pictures of children reading? Here’s the link:
https://www.pinterest.com/aboverub…/i-love-reading-children/
Inspire their interest for reading as you ask them some of the following questions. There’s nothing like questions to get children thinking:
1. Which picture do you like best, and why?
2. As you look at these pictures, what reading position do you think is the most interesting? What position do you like best when you are reading?
3. Which child looks the most interested?
4. Which child looks to be having the most fun?
5. Why do you think these children enjoy reading?
6. What do you love best about reading?
6. Can you find two different painters who love to paint children reading books?
Have fun together.
~ Nancy
(God loves to reveal Himself through a manger mentality).
You will remember these words written in Psalm 23:6, but we also read them in Proverbs 31:12 where it reminds us that the virtuous wife will do her husband good and not evil ALL THE DAYS OF HER LIFE! That's not just the days that we feel like it, or when he's being nice, but it's also on the days we don't feel like it, and when maybe he's not being so nice! It's thinking of something GOOD to do to your husband each new day. May this be our testimony all the days of our life.
Every child that is conceived is uniquely designed by God. There has never been another person like this one in the history of the world and there will never yet be another one to come.
It’s a pink line! You’re pregnant! Wow!
We reminded each other yesterday that we are strangers and pilgrims in this earth. However, we have to do more than know this truth. We have to confess it.
I know you are aware that this world is not your home and you are a stranger and pilgrim on this earth (1 Peter 2:11). But did you know that you are not a sojourner on your own? God Himself sojourns with you. God says in Leviticus 25:23: "For you are strangers and sojourners WITH ME.”
Dear friend, can I please encourage you today to put your trust in the Lord? Anything and anyone else you put your trust in can fail you. When you lean on your own resources and your own flesh, they are not strong enough to hold you. But when you lean on God, who is your Rock, He is strong enough to bear all that you put upon Him--all your burdens and traumas.
We sang this wonderful hymn at our Family Devotions this morning. What great words which are all taken from Scripture. Take a moment to look them up. You will be blessed and encouraged: 
We talked yesterday about living a lovely life. 1 Peter 3: 3-6 talks about living a BEAUTIFUL LIFE. It tells us about the women who lived “in the old time,” or as one translation says, “once upon a time.” Once upon a time, way back in history, women made themselves beautiful in a different way than now. But it is a way that is very precious to God. Let’s read about it in a few different translations so we can really get the picture:
God, who touches earth with beauty,
Laying in bed last night I was thinking about living a lovely life which I wrote about below. A quote filtered through my mind over and over again about “the lovely things that you’ve been taught to do.”
1 Peter 2:12 (Barclay) tells us: “Live a LOVELY life among the heathen.” I was surprised to read the words “a lovely life.” I checked it out in my Greek Lexicon and yes, Barclay’s translation is correct. The word “kalos” means “beautiful (even more than lovely), good, honest, worthy.”
Would you also like to read a devotion from Pearl?
I thought I would share a devotion from Serene for you today, which I am sure challenges us all.
Dear friend, are you going through a trial that weighs you down? You find it hard to bear. I want to encourage you with God’s Word: “There hath no temptation (or testing) taken you but such as is common to man: but GOD IS FAITHFUL, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that YE MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT” (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Unless we have been successfully indoctrinated by humanist and feminist dogma, it is inherent within us to love being at home. God created the first home, the Garden of Eden, to be ready for Eve when He created her. He placed her in her home, in the environment He intended for her destiny. The Hebrew for Eden means “delight.” We should delight to work in our garden and our home. It is our sanctuary to raise our children in this dark world.
We tend to forget that God's Word is for all generations, and that includes our 21st century. God, who created mankind, designed and planned the way for us to live. And what is His plan? Marriage and family life. Because God planned it, it is the healthiest and happiest way to live. Sadly, we don't always see the evidence of this today, do we?
What is the kingdom of God? It is the rule and reign of Christ in individual hearts, families, the church, and the nation. Does your home and family belong to the kingdom of God? You will know if you are at odds with the kingdom of Satan. God’s kingdom is opposite to Satan’s kingdom. Neither the two do meet. If we fit in nicely with the world, we better check carefully which kingdom we truly belong to. We can only belong to one or the other and belonging 
Because Saturday was the 31st November, I read Proverbs 31. I love to read a chapter of Proverbs according to the day of the month. I was arrested by verse 25: “Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.” This clothing is not just talking about her garments, but the attributes with which she is clothed.