Earlier this week I posted about a talk that Art and I did at Camp of the Woods last week called, "Giving Your Family a Spiritual Vision." It is a fun talk to do. One of my favorite parts of the talk is when we teach about having a family signature.
Think about times when we are required to sign something. Our signature means something. If it's a check, it means I am vouching this check is good and I have the money in the bank to cover what I'm purchasing.
If it is a mortgage, it means I promise to take good care of the property and make monthly payments to fulfill my obligation to the bank.
If it is a permission slip for my kids to do something, it means I understand the risks involved and am willing to let my child participate.
There are hundreds of things that require our signature. And while each thing we sign may mean something different, the meaning behind the signature itself, stays the same. Signing your name means promising to be a person of integrity.
Our name is worth something. The Bible says in Proverbs 22:1, "a good name is more desirable than great riches." Therefore, we've decided as a part of giving our kids a spiritual vision, we'd teach them the importance of keeping our family name one that stands for good character and solid integrity.
We've spent years teaching our kids character lessons and highlighting people who model solid integrity. We've tied these lessons to be defining marks on what we want our name to stand for when people think of us.
But we wanted a way to quickly encapsulate all those lessons into one quick statement that could be said every time our kids head out into the world. And it had to be a statement that makes sense to all our kids whether it's our teen heading out on a Friday night with friends or our elementary age daughter heading off to school.
So, we came up with the simple statement, "Remember who you are."
This is our family signature.
All those life lessons, boiled down into one easy to remember and easy to repeat statement. Remember who you are.
And this isn't just a reminder to hold our family name in high regard. No, even more importantly, it's a reminder to hold the fact that we are part of God's family in high regard. Calling ourselves Christians is a huge responsibility. Christ's name is part of our identity.
Does all this mean we have kids who never mess up or let us down? Nope. It doesn't even mean that I never mess up or let others down. Have mercy it's tough having a sold out to Jesus soul stuck in a flesh filled body.
But what it does mean is that we've defined what we're shooting for and hopefully we're all in the process of getting closer and closer to hitting the mark.
Happy weekend bloggy friends!
Oh and if you're looking to enter a contest to win some books on marriage written by an imperfect wife whose learned a thing or two during the past 16 years of being happily hitched... head over to my friend Micca's place.
Think about times when we are required to sign something. Our signature means something. If it's a check, it means I am vouching this check is good and I have the money in the bank to cover what I'm purchasing.
If it is a mortgage, it means I promise to take good care of the property and make monthly payments to fulfill my obligation to the bank.
If it is a permission slip for my kids to do something, it means I understand the risks involved and am willing to let my child participate.
There are hundreds of things that require our signature. And while each thing we sign may mean something different, the meaning behind the signature itself, stays the same. Signing your name means promising to be a person of integrity.
Our name is worth something. The Bible says in Proverbs 22:1, "a good name is more desirable than great riches." Therefore, we've decided as a part of giving our kids a spiritual vision, we'd teach them the importance of keeping our family name one that stands for good character and solid integrity.
We've spent years teaching our kids character lessons and highlighting people who model solid integrity. We've tied these lessons to be defining marks on what we want our name to stand for when people think of us.
But we wanted a way to quickly encapsulate all those lessons into one quick statement that could be said every time our kids head out into the world. And it had to be a statement that makes sense to all our kids whether it's our teen heading out on a Friday night with friends or our elementary age daughter heading off to school.
So, we came up with the simple statement, "Remember who you are."
This is our family signature.
All those life lessons, boiled down into one easy to remember and easy to repeat statement. Remember who you are.
And this isn't just a reminder to hold our family name in high regard. No, even more importantly, it's a reminder to hold the fact that we are part of God's family in high regard. Calling ourselves Christians is a huge responsibility. Christ's name is part of our identity.
Does all this mean we have kids who never mess up or let us down? Nope. It doesn't even mean that I never mess up or let others down. Have mercy it's tough having a sold out to Jesus soul stuck in a flesh filled body.
But what it does mean is that we've defined what we're shooting for and hopefully we're all in the process of getting closer and closer to hitting the mark.
Happy weekend bloggy friends!
Oh and if you're looking to enter a contest to win some books on marriage written by an imperfect wife whose learned a thing or two during the past 16 years of being happily hitched... head over to my friend Micca's place.
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