Delores Frye says that for her, if there was a silver lining to staying home more this year, it was getting started on a project she might not have done otherwise — passing the benefits of daily Bible reading down to her grandchildren.
“I have a lot of medical allergies; I can’t take any medicines really if I were to get sick. So I’ve been staying home since all this got started,” she said. “I’ve also got two granddaughters down in Tampa, Florida, who haven’t been able to go to church during all this.”
So one day a few months ago while Frye was studying her Sunday School lesson, she got an idea.
Creating activities
“I thought, while I’m doing this, the least I could do is to try to get them started on some daily Bible reading and daily studies,” she said.
So she started taking her Sunday School literature along with the Sunday School commentary printed in each week’s edition of The Alabama Baptist and writing age-appropriate daily Bible lessons for her granddaughters — Presley, 11, and Campbell, 13.
Encouraging Bible habit
“I’m a former schoolteacher, so I try to read it and digest it and give them some little assignments to do, questions to answer, a little art project to do,” said Frye, who attends Bluff Springs Baptist Church, Ashford.
For example, for the section in Proverbs that deals with taking the right road or the wrong road that leads to destruction, she had them draw a picture of what each road looked like to them. Along the way, Presley and Campbell have been giving her suggestions on how to make it even better.
She’s now starting to work on studies for her four grandsons too.
“I know when I was their age, I was doing daily Bible reading, and that really makes a difference,” Frye said. “I want them to have that too.”
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