God Cards
“What Really Happened at the Hagan House!” (God card #4 – Blanket/Mr. Bear)
We are focusing on God card #4 this week – God is our Blanket/Mr. Bear. I believe God comforts me. For our children, blankets were very important when they were young. Nap time would not happen unless the blanket was present! For Carson, his Mr. Bears were also very important. He actually has 2 Mr. Bears. They were were given to Maya and Ada as a baby gift, and they never took to them. When Carson was a baby, I put them in his crib more for decoration than anything else. But as he grew, I began noticing he would wake up from a nap with them in hand. I began calling them his Mr. Bears, and it stuck. Ada and Maya are not exactly happy with this God card, because I...
Read More“What Really Happened at the Hagan House!” (God card #3 – Artist)
So, you have purchased the God cards and looked over the handy poster that comes with them. You read the introduction, agreed with the importance of this endeavor and attempted to understand the “Getting Started” section, but you still aren’t quite sure how this works. So, I want to give you a picture of how it fleshed out in the Hagan house – step by step using the “Getting Started” section from the God cards poster to guide us along the way. It is one thing to tell you how to do it, but another thing to show you the Hagan people really doing it! And you will see we often take detours depending on the moment and what is interesting to...
Read More“Shoulders Back!” (God card #42 – Warrior)
For me in this week, “Shoulders Back” was my act of faith, my acknowledgement of the battle going on and my offensive position in it all! “Shoulders Back” was my battle cry! “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, we have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 I was sitting in the doctor’s office with Carson, and we had been waiting for some time. My son, miserable with...
Read More“God is our Warrior!” (God card #42 – Warrior)
This week, we are studying God card #42 – I believe God is my warrior! He fights for me! We read the verses, had some words about the verses and then went to drawing. The question I always use to get them drawing is this: “What jumps out at you from the verses? Is there a word or phrase that you remember? How would you draw what that verse is telling you?” That is usually enough to get the ball rolling or, in this case, the crayon creating. Check out the picture to see our responses. Like always, I think in words. So my paper is some notes on the verses. Ron went more abstract in his drawing, and Carson and Ada really resonated with the story from 2...
Read More“God is our Valentine!” (God card #40 – Valentine)
Here is our family board pictures for God card #40 – God is my Valentine! We read the verses, talked about them and then drew our pictures. Very simple but great conversation! He blesses and loves us, and in the words of Carson, “yes, he dose!” Check out his blue Valentine!
Read MoreGod “Longs for our Love!” (God card #24)
In the middle of making coffee and emptying the dishwasher, one of my many thoughts was this: What card is this week? So, after I poured my cereal and found my place at the kitchen table, I opened up the Plan and for this week of February 3-9, the topic was God card #24 – Longs for our love! Ahhh. . . This is going to be a rich conversation. So, after all three little people living in our home woke up and had cereal of their own, we made our way into some conversation. We started our God card discussion like most. Everyone got out their Bibles. We read the God card title and talked about what it meant. Everyone looked up a verse from the card and read their verses....
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