The Learned

Pray and ask the Holy Spirit for a long term plan. Pray for each kid every day. Work on their individual spiritual growth rather than on activities. Build a good relationship with them. Raise them to be leaders  Raise a worship team Have them serve in the church service doing little things Teach them to do devotion every day

Wow.. how interesting. Let us go back to the beginning.. to the purpose of a family unit:  Gen 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. The purpose of humankind is to represent God (The Holy Trinity)on earth: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Thus, one man alone cannot fully represent God. It takes a family -- which brings us to the purpose of a family -- to represent God. A single mother is not the ideal. Single motherhood is just a part of the whole and has never been the perfect will of God, tho it may be the permissable will of God. Basically, it is not ideal. The ideal would be for her to believe God for a man that God has appointed for her. A child should be the product of love, intimacy and communion. Ideally. Now that what has been done has been done, I wouldn't even bother to wonder if it is a sin or not lest I should sound like a Pharisee -- what difference does it make as the damage ...

Don't know what to get for Christmas for your kid? My daughter made her avatar with AI -- it was a picture of herself, with Axolotl clothes in an axolotl themed room and a lap top with an axolotl cover. I soon realized I was looking at her unconscious Christmas wish list. Try asking your daughter to create a picture of herself with AI

What I did with mine was that when they mentioned Santa, I would tell them the truth. Lying is a sin. And they need to trust us because if Santa can be fake and we make them believe that, they will think Jesus is fake too. Our credibility is at stake.  This is what I say: "So the truth is that Santa was actually St Nicholas -- he was a very good guy and this is what he did for the kids who couldn't afford toys but then he died a long time ago. People today just want to remember his contributions but the way they did it took away the true meaning of Christmas of Jesus and His birth. And that's why we don't do Santa. But other kids do, and their parents lie to them about it. But we must not interfere with what other parents say to their kids. So if someone asks, it's ok to say that we just don't do Santa. We do Baby Jesus."

Two ways to do it -- I call this the Oreo Method: you either eat the cookies or the cream: Cookie Method If you aren't in a hurry that day, the kids routinely do the tasks they're worst at until they 'graduate' from doing that task -- you're happy with the standards they're achieving for that task. This can go on for months. Cream Method Or when you're in a hurry: the other way around -- the kids do the chores they're the best at and the house gets put in order quickly.

Wake up before the sun wakes up... That's the only way. Don't replace your personal time with God with a podcast. Don't give in.. the Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Focus on the 4 gospels

Racism is real. Was hit so hard lately that I changed both my profile pic and cover photo on Facebook. I can't do business or ministry on social media without hiding my face and race, unfortunately... Even when I wrote a book, I didn't put my picture and definitely did not disclose my ethnicity, nationality or even age. Given a choice, I would even hide the fact that I am a woman and go by an alias or my last name, like J K Rowling.  And if my grammar was incorrect in parts of my speech or posts... That's a giveaway.