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The Season of Gratitude (Part 1) - Forget Not His Benefits

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Forget Not His Benefits

Guest: Barbara Rainey

From the series: The Season of Gratitude (Day 2 of 3)

Air date: November 5, 2015

Bob: As a parent, should you train your children to be polite and say, “Thank you,” even if they are not feeling thankful in their heart? Here’s Barbara Rainey.

Barbara: There were plenty of times when our kids said, “Uh, thanks”; or they said it, and you could tell it wasn’t really heartfelt. But they need to be trained to say, “Thank you,” because as we’ve already said, “It’s not natural.” So, that was a really big thing for me—was to teach our kids to say, “Thank you,” whenever they were given something, or helped, or served.

Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, November 5th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I’m Bob Lepine. We’re going to continue to talk today about what moms and dads can do to help their children become more grateful. Stay tuned.

And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us. You know, we had the opportunity—

1:00

—this was not long ago, when our family was together—and we were talking about: “What were the things that they remember from growing up? What are some of their favorite memories?” It is interesting to me how many memories your kids have from when they’re growing up are connected to holidays and vacations.

Dennis: And could I add one thing—

Bob: Yes.

Dennis: —additional?—a tradition that is attached to a holiday or a vacation.

Bob: Well, that’s—when we are in the midst of it, I mean, we know that vacations are fun and that holidays are fun; but I don’t know that we realize how significant these things are—how much a part of the memory bank of a child. What you’re going to do for Thanksgiving this year, what you’re going to do for Christmas this year, or what you do next summer on vacation—you are building a memory bank for your kids that will define—in large measure, it’s a part of what they take with them into adulthood.

Dennis: It is.

2:00

I was looking through some documents that I had to kind of catalogue some of our early Christmases together, as our kids began to get married and bring their spouses to Thanksgiving, and Christmas, and Easter. It was interesting—some of the things that were written were thoughts by a new son-in-law or daughter-in-law, saying, “I loved the fact that we got a chance to see a different tradition or a new tradition that, perhaps, we can make a part of our family as we establish our own.”

I think it’s that longing you are talking about, Bob. When your children grow up, they are going to anchor their own family around these holidays; and they, for the most part, are holidays that represent biblical truths and biblical holidays that families have been entrusted to help their children celebrate.

I’m fortunate that I out-punted my coverage in that I married Barbara because she brought this strong emphasis—

3:00

—not that I didn’t have one from my own childhood—I did—but she brought an even stronger emphasis around the holidays, but around celebrating them and the biblical message that each holiday brought.

Bob: Barbara, welcome back to the program.

Barbara: Thank you.

Bob: Did you recognize, as a young mom, that holidays, and celebrations, and vacations—that these are important for how your kids grow up and develop?

Barbara: I don’t think I understood the value of vacations as much because we didn’t do a lot of vacations in my childhood, growing up; but holidays were always really important to me, as a kid. I intuitively knew—and I think this is true for all kids—I intuitively knew there was something meaningful / something really important, and I couldn’t express it. I didn’t know what it was; but there was something about Christmas, and Thanksgiving, and Easter that was more meaningful and more important than anything else we did the rest of the year.

4:00

And so, as we got married, one of my objectives and goals was to try and find ways to make those holidays meaningful—and especially to make them meaningful, biblically, because God made it really clear in the Old Testament, when He established the feasts, that the nation of Israel was to keep—that setting aside your normal ordinary activities and focusing on Him—and having a holiday, or a feast, or a time away from work—He knew that was important for us, as people. Today, we don’t celebrate those feasts; but we celebrate Christmas—and Thanksgiving, here in America—and we celebrate Easter. And those are very important spiritual religious holidays.

Bob: We are—as we invest in these moments, we’re building a memory box / a memory bank. I don’t know if we’ve ever stopped to think about how important remembering is / how important reflecting on the past is.

5:00

You’ve been digging around in the Scriptures to see what God’s Word has to say about remembering and why remembering is so important; right?

Barbara: You know, out of all of these verses that there are in the Scriptures about giving thanks, and thanksgiving, and being grateful—one of my favorites is one that says it in the opposite way—and that’s Psalm 103 [verse 2], where we are commanded to “…forget not His benefits...” It’s the opposite of remembering. They are two sides of the same coin; but it’s a different way to look at it when you think about “Don’t forget what God has done,” because we’re all so prone to forget; right? All of us forget a whole host of things. God is saying: “No, no, no—don’t forget what I’ve done. You can forget your car keys and all that kind of stuff, but don’t forget what I’ve done because what I have done is the most important thing that you can remember.”

Bob: If you start forgetting the goodness of God in the past—in fact, how we live by faith today is really vitally co...

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The Season of Gratitude (Part 1) - Forget Not His Benefits

The Season of Gratitude (Part 2) - Cultivating Gratitude in the Heart of a Child

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript

References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete.

Forget Not His Benefits

Guest: Barbara Rainey

From the series: The Season of Gratitude (Day 2 of 3)

Air date: November 5, 2015

Bob: As a parent, should you train your children to be polite and say, “Thank you,” even if they are not feeling thankful in their heart? Here’s Barbara Rainey.

Barbara: There were plenty of times when our kids said, “Uh, thanks”; or they said it, and you could tell it wasn’t really heartfelt. But they need to be trained to say, “Thank you,” because as we’ve already said, “It’s not natural.” So, that was a really big thing for me—was to teach our kids to say, “Thank you,” whenever they were given something, or helped, or served.

Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, November 5th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I’m Bob Lepine. We’re going to continue to talk today about what moms and dads can do to help their children become more grateful. Stay tuned.

And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us. You know, we had the opportunity—

1:00

—this was not long ago, when our family was together—and we were talking about: “What were the things that they remember from growing up? What are some of their favorite memories?” It is interesting to me how many memories your kids have from when they’re growing up are connected to holidays and vacations.

Dennis: And could I add one thing—

Bob: Yes.

Dennis: —additional?—a tradition that is attached to a holiday or a vacation.

Bob: Well, that’s—when we are in the midst of it, I mean, we know that vacations are fun and that holidays are fun; but I don’t know that we realize how significant these things are—how much a part of the memory bank of a child. What you’re going to do for Thanksgiving this year, what you’re going to do for Christmas this year, or what you do next summer on vacation—you are building a memory bank for your kids that will define—in large measure, it’s a part of what they take with them into adulthood.

Dennis: It is.

2:00

I was looking through some documents that I had to kind of catalogue some of our early Christmases together, as our kids began to get married and bring their spouses to Thanksgiving, and Christmas, and Easter. It was interesting—some of the things that were written were thoughts by a new son-in-law or daughter-in-law, saying, “I loved the fact that we got a chance to see a different tradition or a new tradition that, perhaps, we can make a part of our family as we establish our own.”

I think it’s that longing you are talking about, Bob. When your children grow up, they are going to anchor their own family around these holidays; and they, for the most part, are holidays that represent biblical truths and biblical holidays that families have been entrusted to help their children celebrate.

I’m fortunate that I out-punted my coverage in that I married Barbara because she brought this strong emphasis—

3:00

—not that I didn’t have one from my own childhood—I did—but she brought an even stronger emphasis around the holidays, but around celebrating them and the biblical message that each holiday brought.

Bob: Barbara, welcome back to the program.

Barbara: Thank you.

Bob: Did you recognize, as a young mom, that holidays, and celebrations, and vacations—that these are important for how your kids grow up and develop?

Barbara: I don’t think I understood the value of vacations as much because we didn’t do a lot of vacations in my childhood, growing up; but holidays were always really important to me, as a kid. I intuitively knew—and I think this is true for all kids—I intuitively knew there was something meaningful / something really important, and I couldn’t express it. I didn’t know what it was; but there was something about Christmas, and Thanksgiving, and Easter that was more meaningful and more important than anything else we did the rest of the year.

4:00

And so, as we got married, one of my objectives and goals was to try and find ways to make those holidays meaningful—and especially to make them meaningful, biblically, because God made it really clear in the Old Testament, when He established the feasts, that the nation of Israel was to keep—that setting aside your normal ordinary activities and focusing on Him—and having a holiday, or a feast, or a time away from work—He knew that was important for us, as people. Today, we don’t celebrate those feasts; but we celebrate Christmas—and Thanksgiving, here in America—and we celebrate Easter. And those are very important spiritual religious holidays.

Bob: We are—as we invest in these moments, we’re building a memory box / a memory bank. I don’t know if we’ve ever stopped to think about how important remembering is / how important reflecting on the past is.

5:00

You’ve been digging around in the Scriptures to see what God’s Word has to say about remembering and why remembering is so important; right?

Barbara: You know, out of all of these verses that there are in the Scriptures about giving thanks, and thanksgiving, and being grateful—one of my favorites is one that says it in the opposite way—and that’s Psalm 103 [verse 2], where we are commanded to “…forget not His benefits...” It’s the opposite of remembering. They are two sides of the same coin; but it’s a different way to look at it when you think about “Don’t forget what God has done,” because we’re all so prone to forget; right? All of us forget a whole host of things. God is saying: “No, no, no—don’t forget what I’ve done. You can forget your car keys and all that kind of stuff, but don’t forget what I’ve done because what I have done is the most important thing that you can remember.”

Bob: If you start forgetting the goodness of God in the past—in fact, how we live by faith today is really vitally co...

  continue reading

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