Ask God to help you see the ways He is intersecting your days. This year make it an event.
Give this a try: fold a little sheet in half and put it on your table or tape it to your dashboard as a reminder to ask your kids where they saw their God that day. You can ask on the way to school or at dinner, but I would challenge you to make a goal to do this every day until Christmas.
Be watchful and then talk about how you are seeing Him.
Their answers may not be the most spiritually enlightening things you have ever heard, and that’s okay. You are training eyes to see. Don’t question their answers. Wherever they see Him…say, “Yes.” Your yes encourages their eyes to keep looking.
Sometimes we need someone else to believe for us. My friend’s encouragement that I am hearing from God keeps me listening, and your belief that they will see their God may be enough for them to stay alert as well.
Create the expectation. Our eyes will be more prone to look if there is an expectation that God does consistently show up (which He does, whether we see it or not), along with anticipation that we will be talking about it.
We patiently await the birth of our Savior and His ultimate return, but even as we wait, God in his mercy and generosity shows us Himself everywhere.
Let’s train our hearts to ask and our eyes to see our God. That pattern is the best gift you could give anyone this holiday.
HLLF,
