Reading the Bible with your kids

I was reminded last Sunday of how reading the Bible to my kids actually can be an enormous encouragement for me too. Dave was away for the weekend and had taken our car, so we weren't able to get to church this morning. (We might have normally walked, but one of the kids was feeling headachy and sick and I thought a 30 min walk might be pushing it).

While it's not the same as being with our church family (I always feel like something's missing when I have to stay home on a Sunday morning), I thought it would be good if the kids and I sat down and read a bit of the Bible and prayed for our church. So we sat down over morning tea and decided we should read the next bit of John that our church and the Sunday school would be looking at that morning.

If you had asked me why I was doing it before we started, I would have said it was for the kids' sake - that I wanted to teach them that Sundays were still special, and that we should pray for our church family even when we couldn't be with them. But as I read, (on a weekend where I haven't managed to read my Bible on my own), I realised the words were feeding me too and that I had been hungry. As it happened, it was the passage where Jesus tells his disciples that he is the bread of life - that they needed to feed on him to have eternal life. Exactly what I needed to read that morning...