Story Warren Weekend, Vol. 14, Issue 24

Good morning,

We’re counting down to next weekend’s big holiday! What are your plans? We’ll be taking next weekend off, for starters. Look for your next SW Weekend email on July 11th. Happy Independence Day!

Around the Web

A nice reflection here on next weekend’s holiday, along with some recommended resources: America at 250: Teaching with Honesty and Gratitude. “Young people are reportedly less patriotic, less involved in community issues and organizations, less likely to say they are proud or grateful to be Americans, than they were fifty years ago. Most of our readers would agree that their greatest love and loyalty are owed to God, but that doesn’t mean their country isn’t owed its rightful share.”

Made for Relationship: “As the years go by, we become more and more able to meet our own physical needs without other people’s assistance. But we’re wrong to believe that this means we are on our way to becoming fully independent. As we grow and become more capable, we start to learn what it means to become interdependent individuals. We are part of something bigger than just us. Now we not only receive from others, but we can also serve others.”

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Around the Warren

As your house might feel fuller these summer days, we shared Millie Sweeny’s A Liturgy for When the House Feels Too Full of Children.

You, O Lord, who created such ridiculous things

as the platypus

and the proboscis monkey,

surely delight in drawings and pretend,

in sprawling blanket forts

and sidewalk chalk smeared on bare legs.

Contributor David Kern brought us Five Ways to Develop Healthy Imagination in Your Kids. “My grandfather – as well as my parents and so many of my other adult relatives – never much concerned themselves with what they looked like around us. In fact, I think they sort of reveled in their oddities.”

Something to do with your kids

Here’s a nice collection of storytelling games to play with kids!

Something to watch

Thanks for reading. We’re on your side.

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Kelly Keller

Kelly Keller is the managing editor of Story Warren. She has her BS in Elementary Education from Messiah University and has taught various ages, but her favorite was worldview and literature with high school students. The “gap” in her resume is actually a window of eighteen years of homeschooling, which she recommends as an effective, though demanding, way of expanding one’s home library.

When she’s not behind her laptop, Kelly enjoys live music, baseball, reading great books, and traveling with her husband, David. Kelly hails from beautiful snowy New England, but after two decades in North Carolina, she feels right at home.

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