THE VALUE OF BLESSINGS You can't Erase harsh words You have to REPLACE them. It is almost impossible to go through a divorce without saying things that hurt our children's feeling. Those harsh words can linger for days, months or years... unless we replace them with a blessing. Our boast for these blessing cards is that even the most dysfunctional/hurting family can be made whole in only two weeks!! BECAUSE... you can't bless and be irritated (curse) at the same time. We have 24 reasons to use the cards but the three main ones are: They make your love for your children visible and audible, They give your children something to remember... something other than your occasional cross word. They also help US battle PREOCCUPATION, the number one enemy of all parents, especially single parents and the recently divorced. How we pray you choose your favorite three blessings and read one a day FOR JUST TWO WEEKS. For more blessings visit www.blessmyfamily.com. The years of life lost to the children of divorce is the same as repeating the Oklahoma City Bombing 1,500 times a day every day of the year. Printing or forward these pages is one way to help. Statistics taken from "The Costly Consequences of Divorce" Published by the National Institute of Health Research, Compiled by Dr.'s David and Susan Larsen.

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Blessing for Boys Hard as it may be to believe Boys do get hurt worse by divorce and their injuries are lifelong. If you don't quite know how to help your boy PLEASE try this blessing. It works whether they are 4 or 14.

Blessing for Spiritual Riches Poverty follows divorce like a bear follows honey. This blessing reminds us and our children that true riches can't be kept in the bank. We should be greedy BUT not for money.

Blessing for an Unsaved Child There is nothing like divorce to make a child doubt all love, even God's. USING this blessing is guaranteed to make things better.

Blessing for Loss For children divorce is all about losing things, sometimes about losing everything...friends, house, school, grandparents, even hope and safety. This blessing can encourage everyone to ask for and look for NEW THINGS.

Blessing for an Abused Child. Having a child abused is one of the worst feelings in the world. This blessing can help. If you yourself are sometimes the abuser PLEASE see a Pastor.

Helping Children (and ourselves) with fear. The one sure thing that EVERY child of divorce shares is FEAR. The fear will be very personal but it will be very real and this page can help. We reccomend also that you try our bird feeding activity. "Consider the birds of the air".

Helping Children (and ourselves) with anger. Even after the divorce is over the anger lives on...often in the hearts of the children. This page can help turn anger into a bond that brings you closer together instead of a bomb that is constantly ticking.

Morning Blessing (Changing Caregivers) The stress meter for divorce is higher for children than any other event save the death of a parent. To be in any way manageable we must do all we can to prevent further stress and make life as dependable and smooth as possible. One way is to use this blessing when changing caregivers.

Blessing for workers One of the great values of the blessings is to help children know what REALLY pleases us. Sometimes these things get lost in daily life. Being a worker is a good thing emotionally and financially.

Blessing for wisdom Anything that will help your child THINK is a good thing.

Blessing for Self Image The one choice every family has to make daily is to bless one another or to be irritable. The great value of blessing cards is that they remind us what is important when so many things seem urgent.

Blessing from the breastplate of St. Patrick Perhaps the words should be modernized but there is something about this blessing that makes you think St. Patrick had a mother (or father) who cared about him very much.

Traditional Irish Blessing Blessings can and should be FUN as well as sincere.

These pages are free . The one payment we do ask is that you forward each page to someone you know.

The Christian Child Care Coalition P.o. Box 8094 Topeka, Ks. 66618 All artwork and commentary are copyright of Charles White. Feel free to make up to 100 copies for use by your local church as long as they are not altered or offered for sale. All other rights reserved. Our email is partner@bibleparent.com