Focus on the Family Magazine - April/May 2022
It can be a struggle to raise a family while balancing your work life, social life and relationships. Focus on the Family magazine is here to help! Each complimentary issue delivers fresh, practical Biblical guidance on family and life topics. Every issue comes packed with relevant advice to build up your kids, strengthen your marriage, navigate entertainment and culture, and handle common challenges you may face in your marriage and parenting journeys. Plus you'll find seasonal advice ranging from back-to-school activities to date night tips for you and your spouse.
It can be a struggle to raise a family while balancing your work life, social life and relationships. Focus on the Family magazine is here to help! Each complimentary issue delivers fresh, practical Biblical guidance on family and life topics.
Every issue comes packed with relevant advice to build up your kids, strengthen your marriage, navigate entertainment and culture, and handle common challenges you may face in your marriage and parenting journeys. Plus you'll find seasonal advice ranging from back-to-school activities to date night tips for you and your spouse.
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EASTER / HACKS & FACTS<br />
a hallelujah hiatus<br />
Before Easter week, we have our children<br />
write <strong>the</strong> word hallelujah <strong>on</strong> a piece of<br />
paper. We put <strong>the</strong> papers into a box and<br />
all shout “hallelujah” as loud as we can<br />
while <strong>the</strong> lid inches closed. We bury<br />
<strong>the</strong> box in <strong>the</strong> snow or hide it in <strong>the</strong><br />
basement. As so<strong>on</strong> as <strong>the</strong> box is closed,<br />
that word is off-limits until Resurrecti<strong>on</strong><br />
Sunday, even if it comes up in a s<strong>on</strong>g at<br />
church. On Easter Sunday, we open <strong>the</strong><br />
box and let <strong>the</strong> “hallelujah” out, yelling it<br />
as loud as we can. This traditi<strong>on</strong> has been<br />
a fun way to help our kids feel <strong>the</strong> joy of<br />
<strong>the</strong> Resurrecti<strong>on</strong>.<br />
—Christie Thomas<br />
care basket<br />
During Easter week, <strong>on</strong>e of my daughter’s<br />
friends was bedridden while recovering from<br />
surgery. The girl’s family had little time for Easter<br />
preparati<strong>on</strong>s. Our family realized God had<br />
provided an opportunity for us to dem<strong>on</strong>strate<br />
His love, and we talked about what we could do.<br />
My daughter asked if we could fill an Easter<br />
basket with homemade bread and cookies. She<br />
also suggested that we buy activity books for<br />
her friend. My s<strong>on</strong> d<strong>on</strong>ated <strong>the</strong> basket he had<br />
received <strong>the</strong> previous year, and we included informati<strong>on</strong><br />
to livestream our church’s Easter service.<br />
While preparing <strong>the</strong> items for <strong>the</strong> basket, we<br />
prayed for God’s blessings for <strong>the</strong>ir family and<br />
asked that our gift would be well received as tangible<br />
evidence of His love.<br />
We felt that God h<strong>on</strong>ored our prayer, blessing<br />
two families that Easter week—ours in sharing His<br />
love, <strong>the</strong>irs in receiving it.<br />
—Nancy Koenig<br />
EASTER EGG INVITE<br />
FOTF / ANNEKA JACK<br />
I explained to our children that when I was<br />
younger, we used <strong>on</strong>ly real eggs for an Easter<br />
egg hunt. They were boiled and dyed, hidden<br />
and hunted. Because many of our senior citizen<br />
friends can’t eat candy, we made a little egg<br />
carrier out of sturdy paper and staples, added<br />
some fake grass and placed a dyed Easter egg<br />
in it. Then our kids visited several seniors who<br />
lived al<strong>on</strong>e and gave <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong>ir basket al<strong>on</strong>g<br />
with a homemade card. We also included an<br />
invitati<strong>on</strong> and an offer for a ride to church <strong>on</strong><br />
Easter to celebrate <strong>the</strong> Resurrecti<strong>on</strong>.<br />
—D<strong>on</strong>na J. Wright
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