Are We Reading Between The Lines?

It's been a yearly tradition for the past several years.

And it's a perfect fit for a bookworm like me.

This week is Nevada Reading Week.

The goal is to get kids excited about reading.

The schools invite adults to come and read to the kids.

I always love to do it.

Especially because my own child is sitting right beside me.

Today I visited my youngest's 3rd grade class.

I read a short story out of the Encyclopedia Brown series.

Do you remember those?

He's a boy detective.

He cracks the case.

How did he figure that out anyway?

It's fun speculating.

And the answers are in the back of the book.

Gotta love that.

But I can't help but wonder.

Will these kids develop a love of reading in a world with so many other choices?

I think about that with my own kids.

The stakes are high, especially for the Christian parent.

Readers will read God's Word.

The Bible.

And hopefully not just read but camp out on a verse or two.

Giving The Holy Spirit a chance to make the words come alive.

An opportunity to reflect on The Truth.

If you were listening to the show yesterday, you know how many listeners called to join the conversation about how God's Word is playing out in practical ways in their lives.

I really think that's the key.

We need to be telling our kids about our own experiences.

That way, we'll both be on the same page.

Deuteronomy 6:5-9 (ESV) "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. "