by Matushka KATHRYN LOS TEKOSIS
jacob's well
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aybe sundays used to be your favorite day; you attended your local church, perhaps sang in the choir, and got through the Liturgy mostly without distractions. You generally had a good feeling about your spiritual state and considered yourself to be a pious and attentive worshiper. Enter children: After a sleepless night, you're arguing with your kids about their church clothes, trying to get them to stop fighting on the way to church, arriving late, and spending most of the service keeping them in line. People are distracted by your kids' commotion, and you're feeling like being there is pointless because you're not praying anyway. You know you cannot manipulate your kids into wanting to be in church by using threats, bribes, time-outs, or corporal punishment.
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Worshipping with Our Children
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