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I don't know about any of you but my kids assume I am crazy LOL. Lately everything we read is really touching my heart and I get all choked up when I am reading these different books to them. I was reading about Amy Carmichael and it talks about the Indian proverb, "Children tie the feet of the mother." And Amy was thinking of this as she was being given children to care for and that she was going to have to sacrifice traveling to tell others about Jesus so that she could take care of these kids that God was bringing to her. WOW! Just made me choke right up as I was thinking how I (and we all) have sacrificed so much for our kids because of God's love for us and His great commission on our lives as moms to raise these little blessings.

And yes - pretty much every day has been a revelation for the last few weeks and yes, I pretty much have had tears running down my face by the end of each reading. I must say, I am feeling so blessed by feeling renewed with God's love every day.

I still read the storytime books to my son in MTMM and I can't tell you how many times this year I have had to stop reading because I was choked up. He has even gotten tears in his eyes a time or two. Right now we are reading "In the Shadow of His Hand" a true story about a holocaust survivor. Oh my goodness is this one rough to read aloud. I am pretty sure every year there has been at least one book that had me in tears at some point.

'I started crying the other day during a Grandpa's Box reading about the crucifixion. I said, "Jesus's mother stood there and watched her son suffer and die!"

My son cried with me.

I told my son and daughter that they will hear the Easter story countless times in their lives. When it stops causing them to have an emotional response...something is wrong.

Oh, I have so done this! My sons ask, "MOM...are you going to cry?" HA! yes! As a matter of fact I am.

My children are disappointed if I make it through a read aloud without crying! They think something is wrong!

Oooooh yes. I had streams of tears running down my cheeks and my throat was so tight that I could barely speak... trying to read the chapter when the Pilgrims were all dieing during that first winter... and being buried on the hill, graves then covered in snow.

My son was staring at me with an expression torn between wanting to laugh at me, comfort me or bawl himself. A little uncomfortable for a boy! I bet my daughter would have just cried with me.

It is a sign of a good book; well written. I still remember in 8th grade, the whole class in tears while reading "where the red fern grows".

Guilty!

Ditto for my daughter and me! I'm afraid this is going to happen in some of these Preparing books

raindrops wrote:Oooooh yes. I had streams of tears running down my cheeks and my throat was so tight that I could barely speak... trying to read the chapter when the Pilgrims were all dieing during that first winter... and being buried on the hill, graves then covered in snow.

My son was staring at me with an expression torn between wanting to laugh at me, comfort me or bawl himself. A little uncomfortable for a boy! I bet my daughter would have just cried with me.

It is a sign of a good book; well written. I still remember in 8th grade, the whole class in tears while reading "where the red fern grows".

Oh no!!!!! We are listening to this book on cd in the car right now. My kids can't get enough of it. We are all gonna be a bunch of crying fools at some point driving down the road

This week, I started to cry as I was reading to my dd in Beyond, how brave the little pilgrim children were as they waved their home made flag and played the drums and told the redcoats they could not come in to the house.
My daughter smiled sweetly and asked gently, what made me cry about the story, she was so sweet about it, but I know she probably wondered what had often in to me!

Another tear giver for me is the story about Francis Scott Key that I've read and teared up all 3 times going through LHFHG.

It doesn't take much these days to bring on the tears for me! Many times readings with HOD bring them on for different reasons (sometimes due to sadness, sometimes due to joy, and sometimes due to who knows what). My boys will be pros at giving hugs and just understanding that women sometimes just tear up for reasons not fully comprehendible to boys/men. Great future training for them when they someday have emotional young lovely wives, I am sure! I love that living books touch hearts and not just minds. What a blessing to school this way!

In Christ,
Julie