March 23-Make it Part of You

Happy Friday and are you glad for the weekend? This weekend is an overnight escape for the Hudson women. We are headed to Kansas City to spend the night with my sister. The one thing my girls have on their agenda is for their Aunt Sharon to teach them to make Granny Newman’s chocolate pie. Pie making, especially building that perfect meringue is something that must be taught and caught. You can’t just type instructions and hope it works.


I think pie-making is becoming a lost art. Not many people I know now who can build a meringue like my Grandmother, my mom or her sisters. And anyone younger than me who can? I can probably count on a couple of fingers. But my sister can.


And she can because she has our Grandmother’s recipe, she was taught to do it and she has practiced it. Often. That’s how you keep an art from dying out. And that’s what God was telling the Children of Israel when he gave them the commands of His Word that day in Deuteronomy 6. Write them down, teach your kids, talk about them, put them on your door post...basically, make a big deal out of these so they don’t get lost. 


“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 at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you 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.”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭6:5-9‬ ‭NLT‬‬


If they just become a part of your life, then it’s part of you, like building a big meringue, it’s just second nature. God wanted them to make these commands such a part of their everyday life that they would never be lost. I tried to think if we do that—do we talk of God’s word as we are going and coming? Is it on our doorposts? With our children? Is it even symbolically tied to our hands and foreheads? Are we in danger of losing it?


When I was a kid, everyone’s mom and grandma made pies. In fact, most of the time there were pies in pretty much everyone’s kitchens. One generation and things changed pretty dramatically. And you must love the Lord your God all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength...One generation not taught and and it is lost. 


Father of all, please forgive us where we fail you and for not teaching our children enough, not holding the line enough to preserve the traditions so that the next generation can know you and will also know how to worship you lord in spirit and in Truth. You are the Holy One, the King of Kings and the Almighty Jehovah. You are El Elyon, the God most high. No one will ever stand before you or take your place. Thank you for loving me. Amen and amen. 


Love you dear friend, 

Pam


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