How Summer Break Helps Us Grow Closer To God
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It’s been several weeks now since school got out. Whether you have a school age child or any children at all, it’s likely you, like me, are starting to feel the effects of all this “free time.” Most churches take summer off from scheduled bible studies and small groups. Other gatherings like BSF, CBS, or MOPS are off for the summer, too. We are set adrift for the summer on our own, trying to manage our children, our homes, our marriages, our faith, our friendships without the assistance of these regularly scheduled programs.
Whether you are a stay-at-home mom, career woman, devoted grandma, or somewhere in between, summer provides all of us with some space.
We are relieved of a few of the responsibilities and commitments that we have the rest of the year, and we look forward to this “break” all year long. But as much as we love the idea of “summer break,” we often find ourselves struggling in the middle of it.
Perhaps you, like me, had a plan going into it. You bought a book or a journal. Maybe you printed out a prayer calendar or scripture reading challenge. Maybe you scheduled get-togethers with your small group and made it happen that one time in between housework and nap times and everyone’s various vacations.
Here we are midway through the summer months, and the plan is beginning to unravel. So how do we embrace the emptiness of summer?