Deuteronomy 6:6-7
“These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
Every morning begins with a gift you didn’t earn — another breath. That quiet inhale is your Father whispering, I’ve given you today. He has trusted it to your hands. Yet how quickly we can forget. The alarm sounds, the coffee brews, and the sacred moment slips past us.
God’s answer to our forgetfulness is simple: teach. Speak His truth at breakfast. Walk it out with your children on the way to school. Live it so openly that your grandchildren absorb it. The commandments were never meant to sit quietly in a book, they belong on your lips, woven into ordinary moments. When faith becomes the rhythm of your home, forgetting grows harder. You remember best what you live. So begin today. One breath. One word. One family shaped by love.
I’m Lonnie Davis and these are words worth thinking.
Suggested Prayer: Lord, help me begin each day remembering Your gift of life, and live Your truth faithfully before those I love.