I’m always on the lookout for ways for more women to access sound Bible study groups, especially Digging Deep. In the fifteen years we’ve been digging together, we’ve added study books, free downloads, interactive video podcasting, audio podcasting, hundreds of Digging Deep blog entries, hundreds of groups, Spanish translations, transcripts of podcasts, multiple advertising items and venues, and sessions and luncheons at various seminars and conventions. It’s been a blessed ride and I constantly learn from all of you.
Recently, at a ladies day in Columbia, South Carolina, I met Sarah King, and was blessed by her idea. Young moms who want to study along in her area of Seneca, SC, have decided to utilize Google Meetings for their gathering, and they are meeting, on a specified monthly evening at 9 pm.
I love this idea! Their kids are in bed and these moms are right there with them, in case the toddler has a bad dream or the baby gets hungry. Nursing moms can turn off their cameras, and, in the case of utter chaos, which can occasionally occur, even after bedtime, mamas can mute themselves, until relative calm returns.
Thanks for sharing, Sarah. It’s a simple idea, but what a great one! The nine o’clock hour may be the very best hour of those Digging days for these blessed children whose mamas are a few feet away, studying together the Word that transforms lives and builds secure homes. Those secure homes, in turn, are foundational to the future spiritual success of those sleeping babies!
It’s not too late (at night or in your life) to start digging!
Last week, I took my second little pilgrimage, for my little granddaughter’s birthday, to a cabin in the Chickasaw State Park for a couple of nights. There’s one important lesson I solidified in my grandmother mind through the events of this second trip; one thing I really didn’t think about last year on the first trip to the cabin.
They let the children know that there are certain people/events in our lives that are important enough to repeat. The memories are solidified and the events are anticipated eagerly from year to year.
Done the best way, traditions together are full of talk, devotion to and reverence for God. You don’t have to be in a worship assembly to be putting faith in kids. Now, don’t miss the worship assemblies of your people, but some of the best faith building times, in the growing years, are the family Bible times and the all-day-long Deuteronomy 6 kind of teaching in life. They will remember this teaching when they are remembering family traditions.
hope yon are carrying out wholesome family traditions. 
As you know, if you’ve been reading, for quite some time, I’ve occasionally been running little installments called “Mama’s K.I.S.S.” I know that lots of readers could give many more and far more creative ideas than I can offer, but these installments are just a few tried and true and mostly old-fashioned ideas for putting service hearts in our kids. This is number 77 of a list of one hundred ways we train our kids to serve. K.I.S.S. is an acronym for “Kids In Service Suggestions”.
Today is Super Thursday at the West Fayetteville church just across the state line in Tennessee. I’m excited to get to talk about parenting at this event. It’s kind of hard to narrow down the material when asked to speak for 45 minutes about raising godly children. I could talk about filling them with the Bible through Family Bible Time for the entire time. I could expound on the value of listening and communicating with our children. The dangers of social media could fill the entire slot, as well.
39. The coffee shop group in Huntsville, Alabama meets with Leah Wright on Wednesdays at 10 am. at Flint River Coffee Company on Winchester Road. I love these ladies. They range, in age, from 15-ish to 50-ish and they are digging wi,th the best! You can contact Leah through Facebook or you can contact me and I’ll give you a phone number! 
The hot water heater stopped heating my water on Tuesday. We kept waiting for it to heat back up, after our power loss, due to a nearby tornado touch-down on Tuesday night…but it didn’t. Just as my husband and I were about to leave for a short anniversary trip, we came to terms with the fact that the schedule we were facing upon returning was not conducive to the absence of hot water in our bathrooms (or dishwasher or washing machine). My man is a handyman par excellence. He is NOT a man who can easily pay someone else to do, while we are gone, what he knows how to do himself. So, of course, we didn’t go. (It was my decision, in view of my schedule, for the record. (It’s podcast week, company week, and a four-day-out-of-town trip week, for me.)
