Giving Your Words: The Lifegiving Power of a Verbal Home for Family Faith Formation by Sally and Clay Clarkson Book Review

 

In Giving Your Words, Sally and Clay Clarkson has written a helpful impactful book on speaking life giving words over our children’s lives. Sally explained how her own mother shared with her words that changed her life. These words were, “If God is for you, who can be against you?” This is a reminder that no matter what there is nothing that is bigger than God and His power. This book describes how we can create a verbal home in our house and speak life giving words. They begin by looking at how God speaks and spoke creation into being. They also looked at Moses and how he was given a word from the Lord, called the Shema. It covered Deuteronomy 6:4-7 and this state how we are commanded to love the Lord with all our hearts and soul. We are supposed to teach the word of God to our children all the time. The book explored the living words and speaking out the giving words. These words included words that are personal, loving, nurturing, believable, wisdom, and much more. 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome book about speaking words over our children’s lives to every single parent or grandparent. This book has the potential to dramatically change our scope on parenting and benefit generations to come. One of my favorite chapters discussed love found in First Corinthians 13. I liked how they broke down the topic of love and how we are required to put on gentleness, forgiveness, patience, humility, compassion, and much more. They also revealed the ABCs of loving words and I immensely connected with the discussion of asking ourselves daily if the words we are providing to our children are loving or harmful. I also enjoyed how they shared the gifts found in life giving words. One of my favorites is the gift of explaining that our children are special and how they were given gifts from God and their personality was chosen for them. 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Bethany House/ Chosen for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Your-Words-Lifegiving-Formation/dp/0764235923/