97: 5 Practical Ways To Show Grace To Your Family Even When They Are Driving You Crazy

April 27, 2020

No one wants their families to look back on this Quarantine and remember the stress, the short tempers, or the frustrated tears. Instead, we want our families to look back on this time and remember feeling safe – not just from COVID, but safe in our hearts and minds as well. This is why we need to show our family grace.

In Episode 97, Daniel and Christina share 5 practical ways to show grace to your family, even when they are driving you crazy!

In This Episode, You Will Hear About:

What the word “grace” means
Practical ways to show grace to your family even when they are driving you bonkers
How gratitude, communicating kindly, and showing genuine appreciation, can be the gift your family needs during this time

Resources Mentioned During the Episode:

Listen to our Mini Episodes about Centering Prayer and When You Can’t Sleep, Try This Prayer
Take a look at Paul Tripp’s book: Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
Want to hear more about what it means to make bids? Listen to 6 Relationship Lessons From The Netflix Movie Marriage Story

Quotes & Tweets:

We don’t want our family to look back on this time together and remember the short tempers or how our kids felt like an inconvenience to our goal-reaching. Instead, we want them to look back on this time and remember feeling safe – not just from COVID, but safe in their hearts and minds as well. @imbetweenshow
Remembering to be grateful has helped us when we are frustrated. When we are angry, it helps us to stop, take deep breaths, and to count our blessings. @imbetweenshow
Being purposefully grateful for what we still have shifts our hearts and our minds to Jesus. @imbetweenshow
It is important to remind our hearts and our emotions to rest in the presence and power of our Heavenly Father. @imbetweenshow
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8, 9
When we apologize, we are modelling to our children how to confess when we make mistakes. @imbetweenshow
God has called you to look for opportunities every day to be part of His process of grace in the lives of your family. He’s called you to be his tool of grace again and again and again. Parenting and marriage really is a life of holy repetition. @paultripp
Start every day by confessing the anger of the previous day and by asking God to give you the grace that you need so that your responses to your children would not be driven by the condemnation of anger, but by the rescue of forgiveness. @paultripp