"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart; you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Our families need for us to have the humility and the strength to trust the Lord enough to do these things. Brooks Robinson was once interviewed about a putout he had made by snagging a blistering bouncer while running into foul territory, turning on the run and getting rid of the ball so quickly that it was virtually a blind throw. He said that he knew he had to get rid of it quickly to have any chance and that he guesses that he had made the throw to first so many times that he didn't need to see it to hit it. That astounds me. Our families need for us to know God and His Word like that. When we pray, is it like going to a stranger because we need something, or is it a welcome and familiar climb into the lap of the Lord Himself who loves us and knows us? Is the Bible the owner's manual that we keep filed away until we need it, and then we have trouble finding what we're looking for because we haven't consulted it since the last time that something broke? Or, is it a well-traveled, outwardly disheveled but inwardly cherished and intimately known message from God?