DADS READ: "The BOY and the OCEAN" by author Max Lucado and illustrator T. Lively Fluharty
JER: “ The BOY and the OCEAN ” by author Max Lucado and illustrator T. Lively Fluharty is an extended metaphor for the expansiveness of God’s love and the beauty of the Earth. “The ocean is like God’s love - ‘Always here. Always deep. It never ends. God’s love is special.’” What God or gods were you raised with? What God, gods, or spirituality do you want to pass onto your kids? I was raised with a very personal god, a “God of the Lost Keys”, one that would care enough about life and humans to help, even me, find lost objects. I remember getting up in front of my Mormon congregation to bear my testimony about the time I found my beloved pocket knife after a prayer in the woods. My belief in God has evolved over time, from believing in a stern-but-loving Heavenly Father, to perhaps a Heavenly Couple including a Heavenly Mother & Heavenly Father, to doubting the existence of any God, and to now believing “God” might be the magical real...