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Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are are at home and when you are on the road, when your are going to bed and when your are getting up. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Mission Impossible???

Ok, so maybe not impossible:)  But the mission I am referring to here is our Family Mission Statement.  Not too many months ago we challenged (and were challenged) our small group to write a Family Mission Statement.  It's a great way to figure out the priorities and foundations of your family, giving you something to base your family decisions off of.  It helps get the entire family on the same page, kids included...helping you all to know where the family stands and therefore keep each other accountable. 

So, with that said, we are currently working on ours.  We have talked about one for several years now, never officially putting it down on paper.  Well now is the time.  We were particularly challenged when one of the couples in our small group showed up one week with a formal, typed, mission statement... AWESOME!  So we decided it was about time for us to get ours down on paper.  Have any of you done something like this?  Any good church, organization, business has a mission statement, so why not the family?  I write all this as an attempt at accountibility.  I figure if I blog it, then I have to stick to it and do it, right?  Hopefully within the next few weeks I will have something formal.  Next week is the Homeschool Convention which always helps keep us on track and spurs on a lot of thoughts in regards to our family unit.  So I'd better get writing!!!