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Masks as Signs of Love

July 20, 2020 By Melody Wilson Shobe 5 Comments

As the coronavirus pandemic stretches longer and longer, figuring out how to parent in this time of uncertainty adds new challenges each and every day.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: coronavirus, love, parenting

Our Family’s Nativity Tradition

December 10, 2019 By Melody Wilson Shobe 6 Comments

On the first Sunday of Advent after church, I get to go home and do one of my most favorite things. No, it is not decorate a Christmas tree—we will wait until the week of Christmas to do that. On the first Sunday of Advent, in my family, we set up our nativities.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Advent, baby Jesus, crèche, nativity, parenting, Wise Men and Women

Celebrating Saint Simon, Saint Jude, and Zealots who Change the World

October 28, 2019 By Melody Wilson Shobe Leave a Comment

Saint Simon and Saint Jude are an odd couple; they are a strange pair of saints to observe together. They are not brothers, as some linked saints are. They are not martyrs who died on the same day. They are not saints whose names are linked together again and again in scripture. Instead, it seems that the only reason that they are observed together is that they are the two disciples about whom we know the least.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting, Saints Tagged With: children, St. Jude, St. Simon, zealot

Growing in the knowledge and love of God over the summer

May 21, 2019 By Melody Wilson Shobe Leave a Comment

As you make your plans for summer study or travel, for camps and play dates, consider making some time for summer formation as well.  After all, your kids (at least) might have some extra time, and what better opportunity to grow in the knowledge and love of God?!

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: children's Bible, children's books, Christian formation, Illustrated Children's Ministry, Lego, parenting, reading, science, summer

Poems, Prophecy, and Pockets

May 10, 2019 By Melody Wilson Shobe 2 Comments

A few weeks ago it was “Poem in Your Pocket Day” at my kindergartener’s school. This is a day when each student is asked to bring a poem to school to share with her classmates.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: kindness, poetry, prophet, school

Preparing Children for the Passion

April 11, 2019 By Melody Wilson Shobe Leave a Comment

It can be difficult for our children to the stories of Holy Week. Here are some tips for preparing children for the Passion.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Children in church, death, Easter, Good Friday, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday, Passion, resurrection

Celebrating the Feast of Saint James of Jerusalem, Brother of our Lord

October 23, 2018 By Melody Wilson Shobe Leave a Comment

“Oh, you’re So-and-So’s sister!” There are, perhaps, no more daunting and deflating words that any sibling can hear. They are an immediate sign that the person […]

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: Feast Days, saints, siblings, St. James of Jerusalem

The Transfigured Jesus Should Transfigure All of Us

August 6, 2018 By Melody Wilson Shobe Leave a Comment

The Feast of the Transfiguration has always been a favorite of mine. My first preaching assignment in seminary was on Luke 9:28-36, the story of […]

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: birth, Feast Days, Transfiguration

The Good Book Club Grows in Us – Continued Family Connections

April 13, 2018 By Melody Wilson Shobe Leave a Comment

The Good Book Club helps us make connections with Scripture stories, our own stories, our family story, and with one another.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Acts, art, children, The Good Book Club, young children

This Easter, I will Walk in Love

April 4, 2018 By Melody Wilson Shobe 1 Comment

A new book encourages us to let our prayers shape the way we live, – every hour of every day of every week for our entire lives.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Forward Movement, Prayer, Walk in Love

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