Big and little ways our family builds unity, avoids or tackles common family challenges, and befriends uncertainty through trust in God and family. Family glue options and opportunities are everywhere! Look for, prioritize, foster, value, initiate, maximize, support, encourage, trust, and enjoy family glue as a means to love God and others wholeheartedly.

Monday, January 09, 2006

Morning Offering

Praying together as a family is awesome glue. More on this later. Praying separately FOR our family is important too. Since our family members wake at different times, we each say a Morning Offering and ask that God bless our family throughout the day.

As wife and mother, I like to pray this Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary for my entire family, including my extended family, as a Morning Offering. I first found this prayer in a sweet little book called The Catholic Mother's Resource Guide.