The Intentional Life

So if you read Collin's blog you have read a little about this but if not here it is.  For the second time Collin and I will be co-teaching a class at the Pepperdine Lectures in May.  When we found out that we were going to be doing this we racked our brains for something different yet still relative to teach on.  We ended up deciding to try a little experiment with our family that we will report on as our class.

What we are going to do is try to live more intentional lives as a family.  Lately we have so frequently found ourselves sitting on the couch bored and looking for something to do.  We more often than not would end up just sitting in front of some sort of technology (phone, iPad, computer, tv etc.) not communicating and acting like total zombies.  It was just horrible and had to change.  Collin has Fridays off each week (since Sunday is technically a work day for him) so we decided we would plan family activities that have some element that we can use to teach our kids (mostly Maddox at this point) about God, Jesus, the Kingdom, or the Christian life in general.  We started the first Friday in January and have decided to call these "Adventure Fridays" because Maddox gets really excited about the idea of going on an adventure!  We have now completed 2 weeks of this experiment and so far it is going great!!  I am not going to share too many details on here until after we teach our class; but just to give you an idea of what we are doing week one we went to the Children's Museum and focused on Imagination and this week we went to the Denver Science and Nature Museum and focused on how big our God is!  Each week after our "adventure" we jot down some notes on how the experience was so that we can remember them when it's time to compile our data!  We are also documenting our adventures with pictures and videos so when we are finished with the ones for the class I hope to put them all together in a video to possibly show in our class and for posterity's sake!

I think this is going to be so much fun and we are going to make so many awesome memories as a family by doing this. The idea of intentional living is something we want to continue to do long past what is needed for this class because we feel it is so important in forming our children spiritually!!  I can't wait to see what impact this has on our family and hope our findings will be helpful to other families that are looking to get out of the rut of everyday life.