🎈TOGETHER 🎈
God uses ALL things (not just some or a few things) together for GOOD when you love GOD and are called according to HIS, now our purpose.
It's Sunday evening, but I couldn't settle. So after asking my Husband what He wanted me to do, HLM to do what I envisioned, then tested but realized I'd gotten no feedback or confirmation. That's when I remembered I'd forgotten that HLM to stop the children's posts for My Beloved Child on September 22nd.
Of course, I had no idea why. He never explains why. He just trusts that I will do whatever He asks, and later on (sometimes immediately after) I obey (or, like this time, much later) I understand.
https://encouragingwomen.org/devotional/my-beloved/october/
I'm not sure it's entirely obvious what HLM to do, so let me explain. Rather than dividing children from their parents or parents from their children, in one simple process—AFTER a series of frustrating and tedious trials—it is both easy and light to add the 🎈 children's devotional to follow the parents
Yet, what's more important to Him and to me—it's instantly uniting rather than dividing families. 🎈
Since it's late, my Darling Husband told me to leave the rest of October (that we've finished) until later. He's promised to lead me to know when.
“But the light makes all things easy to see. And everything that is made easy to see can become light. ” E5:1314ICB
I love it Erin. It is light and easy, but I also like how He led you to have the children’s font a bit smaller. It gives the idea of parent and child.
We read the one for today and it was so fitting. To allow Him to open our ears to His voice.
https://encouragingwomen.org/devotional/my-beloved/october/#October%202
This also makes it easy that no extra jumplinks are needed when you add one because they are already in place.🤩
I must just add this, I am enjoying the My Beloved Child so much, and how many times our wonderful Lord speaks to me through the devotionals.
Janine, totally agree with you. Everytime I do the devotionals with the children, He speaks to me too.
Oh dear Erin, I loved this, 🎈 children’s devotion to follow their parents… it was great. And you’re right Yvonne, the detail of the slightly smaller children’s font is lovely.
Dear Erin this is great, now i can take from one page the devotional for me and my children. Luv It😍
Wow!! So sweet Erin!! I agree with all, mix the devotionals and change the size of the child’a devotional is really great. I love it!! Now, I longs to have children to read it together!! 😂🙌
I love the idea of the changes and especially to be able to use it with our children.
I loved it!!! We will be able to share this devotional together with my daughter without doing it separately; I loved the typography, she’s going to love it. I loved this new way of coming together to meditate and talk about His Word 🙌🙌🙌
I’m so glad you all agree this is so much better and exactly what many of you said—it left me in complete AWE!
No added jump links; they’re already there! (This is a tedious multistep process for those of you who are wondering what we’re talking about).
And the increase in font size— that was ALL Him too!!
As HLM to copy and paste it from the Word document (so it can become a book when it’s finished), when I pasted it I instinctively began to adjust the size, but He said, “Save it,” and so I paused to make sure and heard Him again, “Save it” and I instantly saw the font was larger without doing ANYTHING at all. Then, my mind went back to how small children’s books have larger fonts.
And even though no one said anything about the simple red balloon, I’m just tickled by how perfect He’s done it again!!
Now we simply need His perfect plan that’s easy and light for moving the ones already done onto the parents’ version and what HE WANTS us to do with the ones we have. Just now, HLM to take the first steps. I just can’t begin to explain how thrilled I am by this!
As if He didn’t bless us enough—LOOK at the updated cover with the RED BALLOON. And you could never have imagined how EASY I did it on my preview. Once I get some confirmation, we can update them ALL— including the other languages. I believe the location of the balloon is just right too!
I’m speechless!!