Christian Parenting.

Hey guys, this Sophia.

Welcome to Pardon the Mess.

I'm glad that you are with us.

This week we are continuing to pray for our kids through

the school year, and we are praying they are marked by generosity. I think that's a great thing

to pray for our kids as we're headed into Thanksgiving and the holidays and just what does

generosity look like in their lives. And so I'll start by telling you a little story of generosity

for my own life. As you know, if you listen to this podcast, you get some random tidbits from me on occasion.

This is one of them.

But you know the story in the Bible where it talks about the widows might and how she gave

everything that she had and how that was honored because of the sacrifice?

And so when I first got to law school and had my first, like, law job, I was tithing

and I was writing checks. Remember checks back in the day for you younger folks? And I would write a

check to the church, you know, each Sunday and put it an offering plate or whatever. And one time I got

a call from the church and apparently I bounced a check to the church. And so my family has

always made the joke about how I was trying

to outdo the widow and the widows might. She gave all that she had. I gave more than I had.

So there you go. That's my random story about generosity. Apparently I was too generous at some

point early on. But we are talking generosity today. And we're going to talk about it like you

know through the context of Nehemiah.

And we started it off last week talking about kind of Nehemiah's purpose and rebuilding the wall

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