Creative Ways to Build Family Rest

Creative Ways to Build Family Rest (from Pastor's Weekly Briefing, 5/13/2005)

The following list — excerpts from Little House on the Freeway by Tim Kimmel — may provide some cloud-seeding for a brainstorm or two of your own for creative ways to build inner confidence and calm.

1. Pay off your credit cards.
2. Take off ten pounds or accept where you are without any more complaints.
3. Eat dinner together as a family for seven days in a row.
4. Take your wife on a dialogue date (no movie, guys).
5. Read your kids a classic book (Twain’s a good start).
6. Memorize the Twenty-third Psalm as a family.
7. Give each family member a hug for twenty-one days in a row (that?s how long the experts say it takes to develop a habit).
8. Pick a night of the week in which the television will remain unplugged.
9. Go out for a non-fast-food dinner as a family.
10. Pray for your spouse and children.