St.Patrick's Day Crafts

I love St. Patrick's Day, because I'm 1/4 Irish, and I love Jesus! Here are some fun things I found digging for ideas to use with my preschool-aged girls for this week. Enjoy!
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A great poem: 
First is God the Father, Then Jesus, His only Son. With the Holy Spirit, 

Together, they are Three In One.
(don't know where I came across this originally, sorry!)
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Trinity song from ABC Jesus loves me:
 (Tune of "Are you Sleeping?")
God the Father, God the Father 
God the Son, God the Son
God the Holy Spirit, God the Holy Spirit
Three in One, Three in One.

Crafolic.com has some fun Trinity and St. Patrick art ideas:

(bell pepper prints)

also, a free shamrock Trinity printable:

Why the clover?According to DLTK, Saint Patrick used a shamrock to explain about God.  The shamrock, which looks like clover, has three leaves on each stem.  Saint Patrick told the people that the shamrock was like the idea of the Trinity – that in the one God there are three divine beings:  the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  


Super cute handprint craft from B.inspired.mama!

Great St. Patrick's Day Story Bag idea, as well as some great history from rhythm of the home. 

 

 
Great File Folder Games here at File Folder Fun

Super cute printables here craftionary!!!

And I leave you with an Irish Blessing:

Can't Judge a Book by it's Name (not all the time anyway...)

Recently, I started going to a weekly Mom's group. I went for the first time excited to hang out with Christian moms, and glad for my homeschooling kiddos to have friends to play with in the next room while we met. Then I saw the book: Lord, Help Me Grow Spiritually Strong in 28 Days (but we're doing 3 chapters a week--what rebels!). Judging the book by the name, I went into it thinking it was going to be some emotion-driven, sort of watered-down spiritual checklist of a text. (What a terrible pessimist I sound like!) Anyway, I couldn't be happier to have been wrong about the book! 

It is not touchy-feely at all, each day there is a foundational Christian principle discussed, with the Biblical passages all written in the book (Good for mom's who are reading while holding a sleeping baby and can't easily flip between the book and a Bible! Yippee!). There are questions about the passage with space to write your answer, but the authors ask you to answer using words from the text so as not to take the scripture out of context. I honestly felt silly doing this, but it makes you think and reflect and lets truths sink in deeper than usual speed reading allows.

Well, these past few weeks have seriously been super encouraging and challenging for me. I have really appreciated getting to know these women, and have loved this opportunity to pray for them and their families. In reading this book so far, I have realized that I have become someone who tries to survive the day, instead of someone who is focused on glorifying God in my life. Ouch! I hope it keeps hurting, and continues to make any part of my life that is not aligned with God's will uncomfortable, as He molds me bit by bit into someone who loves and lives like Jesus.