Just Enough and Not Too Much by Kaethe Zemach

This has been a repetitive book for our family! It illustrates a great message. Just because you can buy something doesn't mean you have to have it. Just because culture presses "MORE! MORE!" doesn't mean you have to succumb. Materialism is bungle some! Simple is sweet! It opens room for experience and freedom and if you have, giving is so much sweeter than hoarding! Contentment! Contentment! Contentment!

This was one we read often last summer just for fun and it has been one that has resurfaced through conversations about why make some of the choices we make! The American chant of "Big house, nice car, new everything when you have perfectly good ones that have been proven dependable (backpacks)" is ringing more loudly in their ears.  This is a confidence building story that brings back the value of less.

I Timothy 6:6 "But godliness with contentment is great gain."

Philippians 4:11b-13"...for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to bein need, and I know what it is to have plenty.  I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I CAN DO ALL THIS THROUHG HIM WHO GIVES ME STRENGTH."

Did I Tell You I Love You Today? - by Deloris Jordan

One draw for this book for kids especially boys is that Michael Jordan's mom wrote it. One draw for this book for moms is the prayerfulness that begins it and ends it.  There are so many ways that parents communicate that they love their children and so many ways that God communicates it too his children too. Some of these can be overlooked by kids and parents and this book points them our beautifully!