6 Easy & Spontaneous Home-Centered Faith Practices

Originally published here - Vibrant Faith Articles.

”The family is a proclamation of faith in that it is the natural place in which faith can be lived in a simple and spontaneous manner… It is, indeed, a Christian education more witnessed to than taught, more occasional than systematic, more ongoing and daily than structured into periods.” DFC #227

I loved reading Rosina Hendrickson’s “Moments of Meaning Fuel an Infectious Faith” posted in early September. The four-step practice she shares (from Leif Kehrwald’s Families and Faith: A Vision and Practice for Leaders)—helping families “identify and celebrate moments of meaning in the contact of daily life”—is so powerful. Parents often think they have to “know” so much more. They have to “be” better. The reality of being the spiritual leader of their own household can be overwhelming. We can help alleviate that fear, but too often we exacerbate it by loading expectations on them before we help them see and celebrate what they’re already doing. Rosina’s focus on “all the moments of our day” is one I’d like to explore further…
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