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Teach Your Kids To Wildly Hope - Downtown - Newsletter
- The MomCo Winter Garden
- Apr 17
- 7 min read
As parents, we have the amazing opportunity to teach our children about the hope of Jesus. Carlos Whittaker shares how we can wildly hope with our kids and teach them that they are part of God’s hopeful plan for the world.
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Every table group is unique. There are so many things we can learn from each other – things that will help the moms sitting around your table feel welcomed, loved and accepted. As the leader, your task is not to tell the group what to do, but to use questions to draw out what moms need to talk about and to help others understand that often there are no “right” answers. When a person knows you are listening and can relate to her, it opens the door for deeper conversation.
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Thurs, Apr. 17 at 6:30pm-8:30pm - Meetup 13 - Teach Your Kids to Wildly Hope - Downtown
As parents, we have the amazing opportunity to teach our children about the hope of Jesus. Carlos Whittaker shares how we can wildly hope with our kids and teach them that they are part of God’s hopeful plan for the world.
Sat, Apr. 19 at 10:00am-11:30am - Easter Party Egg Hunt - Orchard Park
Sat, Apr. 26 at 6:00-9:00pm - MNO Dumpling Party - Q's House
Thurs, May 8 at 6:30pm-8:30pm - Meetup 14 - Restoring Your Body Image - Horizon West
Sat, May 10 at 2:00-3:00pm - Winter Garden Splash Pad Play Date
Fri, May 16 at 7:00-9:00pm - MNO Crocheting w/ Tori - Tori's House
Thurs, May 22 at 6:30pm-8:30pm - Meetup 15 - End of Year Praise & Pajamas - Downtown
Sat, May 31 at 10:00-11:30am - End of Year Pool Party Play Date
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True Hope
Bria Hyink // beingbria.substack.com
“Actually, I’m never going to die, Mommy,” my four-year-old informed me when I tried to gracefully approach the good news of Easter for the first time this weekend.
I was expecting her to react in gratitude or joy when I told her that Jesus died for our sins and rose again, so that we can live forever with him in a world made right when we die.
I balked and changed the subject, unsure of how to answer well. Thinking more on it later, I pulled deep within myself:
What is the hope here that I want her to grasp?
How do I break the news that we will all die one day?
Or that we might actually die tomorrow, or never wake up in the morning?
That a good, long, easy life isn’t promised no matter how cute or good or faithful you are?
It felt wrong to pop her bubble, so I didn’t that morning. But I worry that doing so may have inadvertently given her a false hope, a cheesy dupe of the real thing.
Because our inevitable struggle and suffering and death does not nullify the goodness of God. These hard parts don’t make the glory less glorious. And she will need the true hope of the gospel to anchor her when the inevitable trials appear at her door and in her home and in her heart.
And I realized that my response to God looks a lot like her response to me. When I cling too hard to the look and feeling of my current circumstances, unwilling to place them in the light of eternity, I have the tendency of feeling a little cheated too.
I have been known to ignore the harder parts of life and beg for more goodness. I am a frequent prayer for provision and peace and good feelings. I often don’t want to pop my own bubble, even if that means ignoring the true truth and hope of life.
How can I pass hope along to my daughter when I don’t actively cling to it myself?
It was a faith reckoning that I wasn’t expecting from the mouth of my toddler that led me toward Jesus, once again having to exchange my false idols and hope for the real stuff.
Because if I don’t have the truth in my heart and my perspective, then I’ll be sorely disappointed when things don’t go my way, and I’ll be devastated when said struggles are meaningless. And I don’t want to pass that perspective along through generations, like a hereditary disease that rots the soul.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. – 1 Peter 1:3-6
I’m determined to instill true hope in my kids by living it out and believing in it myself. By talking about the glory that can come from suffering, the great news of heaven, and the redemption of all pain.
Because anything else is cheating them of the wild hope that Jesus gives, one that isn’t dependent on circumstances and death.
Questions:
How do you handle hard conversations with your kids?
What hope do you base your life on?
What is a way you can authentically communicate hope through every circumstance to your kids?
The MomCo Winter Garden
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