Intentional Family time

No tv. No phone. Reading and puzzles. We did it together 🙂 Then Timothy read to us. He is progressing well with his reading and I am so proud of him! Praise God!! Deon was not all giddy excited about it but he participated. 🙂We each read a page or a paragraph from our books then spent about 30 minutes reading independently. I am grateful that I was able to Woman Up (my book by Lori Champion) and assist Timothy AND keep up with my book at the same time.

We are blessed. Blessed to be together. Blessed to have each other. Timothy counted his blessings– warm house to live in so he doesn’t have to take his tent outside to live under the bridge. Hallelujah. I moved to Austin ten years ago with faith, few support and meager finances. Grateful for my mama!! And for answered prayers for favor with people! I could have been homeless — got eviction notices 3 times!! But praise God! It was humbling then and humbling NOW to hear my baby praise GOD! Hallelujah. We were driving in our faithful Mazda that Deon brought home in 2015. Timothy kept talking and talking about what he sees and remembers and then he would say, well thank God we have this or that 👏🏾😁😃 To pass on an attitude of gratitude! I am grateful! We will count every blessing! Surely every season God is good to us!

I had to let go of my ideal — having a husband who read the newspaper or books amd initiates family moments. I had to let that go and be the one to create and lead the intentional moments that I want to see. A wise woman shared that part of being a woman is to MAN up and lead like Deborah in the Bible did for Barak. He missed his blessing but she led him using her gifts and position, not belittling him — just doing what God called her to do. I am going to do the same! Be intentional is what God told me this year. Each day, I have the choice to do something intentional that will leave an impact. Something towards my goals and to add to the Kingdom of God.

Timothy will read. He will lead might even become a judge. We the Griffiths will delight in God and in each other.