Reasons to use the ABCs journal
The ABCs journal prompts you to reflect
The LORD speaks flawlessly. We speak flawed. The ABCs journal prompts give you pause that as an image bearer your speech can honor God. Your speech can build up rather than tear down.
The ABCs journal was designed after reading Paul Tripp's War of Words (https://www.paultripp.com/) in hopes of making peace with words. Sitting with a guided, abecedarian journal, a pen, and most importantly, God's Word, profound changes can happen in our thoughts, speech, and relationships that can transform the way we live our lives.
The ABCs journal prompts you to reconsider
This is the preamble of the relationship journey. What you will see here is a forerunner for what your family can be. Use it as a crossroad. The seed of your thoughts will germinate into attitudes and actions. Which road will you choose?
You can use the ABCs journal each day to record parts of your story. You never know which attitudes or activities will resonate with you, which past stories will become more salient in your mind, which relationships will be enriched because you took the time to gain insight into what makes you tick. Once you share your story coherently with your children, it will create a buffer that will support them and help them to be resilient in the face of social shocks that confront them. One thing's for sure. God is interested in every part of you. We are more than a bunch of parts thrown together (Gestalt Theory, if you will).
The ABCs journal prompts you to rejoice
He makes every part work together. He gives us boundaries and balance to enable us to enjoy the good gifts that come from Him. (See Psalm 16:11, Ecclesiastes 4:12, 5:19-20 and 6:2, Mark 2:19, Proverbs 1-9, James 1:17, John 10:10, 1 Peter 4:10). The ABCs journal prompts you that there is fun to be had without remorse, shame or guilt when you learn from the author of fun, joy, peace, and living life to the full.
When He shows you that you were fearfully and wonderfully made, knit together by the hand of God in your mother's womb, may He get all the glory, praise and honor, and may your every attitude and activity return thanks and allegiance to so great a God as He!