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Titus 2, 11-14 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works.

I stood in front of my bedroom mirror and cringed as I stared at my new haircut.

Rather than featuring the wavy layers of Rachel from Friends, I looked like a poodle with short layers that poofed out every which way.

I dreaded walking into my ninth grade class the next day.

I imagined the gawks and giggles from the other girls whose hair looked like they could be on the cover of Glamour magazine.

I grabbed at the ends of my hair and wrenched the hairbrush through the mess, trying to make the layers softer or less voluminous, but they only grew.

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Philippians 4.5 Let your gentleness be evident to all, the Lord is near.

Gentleness is one of the hardest ideas to teach my children because they often confuse it with weakness.

However, when I think of gentleness, I picture the large, rough hands of a farmer holding a new baby chick.

Those hands are strong.

They have thrown hay bales, fixed tractors, and worked cattle.

But when they hold that baby chick, they are gentle.

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Psalm 26.3 For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.

As much as I love taking karate with my boys, there are many days when I want to quit.

I grow weary of picking them up after school and listening to them whine about going straight to practice.

I get tired of keeping track of uniforms and weapons.

Goodness, some days I don't even want to show up for practice.

But I remain faithful to the commitment we made.

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Luke 6 45 The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil.

For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Goodness and kindness are two sides of the same coin.

To help me see the difference, I think of kindness as actions taken while goodness starts internally.

Even those we know who aren't Christians are capable of kindness.

Anyone can say a kind word, help someone with a task, or give to someone a need.

What's the Lord been teaching you and how has that affected the way you're praying for your kids?

So what I'm learning is, like I already mentioned, applying Mark 12, 30 through 31 to our families and friendships.

And then we talked about this kind of before we got on and I had already written about it in the book.

So that was really interesting.

And right now we're calling it Everyday Prayers for Our Children's Friendships.

So you can just pencil that in.

We haven't told anybody yet.

And

Before we even left the

driveway, I heard...

Mom, he's lying to me.

Mom, he hit me.

Stop getting in my

space.

Move your elbow.

I pulled the car over less than a mile later and warned them sternly that we were not doing all this arguing and fighting today.

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Isaiah 26.3 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.

Peace is a choice.

My grandmother recently told me that when my uncle was young, he got into an argument with the boy next door.

It was enough of a conflict that the other mother got involved and she was pretty upset.

The next day, Grammy collected some fruit she had just bought and knocked on the neighbor's door.

She didn't mention the conflict.

Yeah.

First off, I would say make sure you know what your students' teachers' restrictions are.

Some of them, and I know some for we're in a pretty solid school district and one that is very high-tech and advanced.

But even those teachers, at least last year, weren't introducing AI into their classrooms.

I would guess they had a zero-tolerance policy to where they are using it.

So be aware of what your students, your children's teacher's rules are about it because that's for where you need to start first because if they aren't allowing it, then you don't want to encourage your kids to use it at all.

If they are allowing it, depending on to the degree to which they are, then just be kind of go side by side with them.

How can I keep up with this? What encouragement would you give to a mom who just feels overwhelmed by all of it? I would

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Psalm 126, 2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter and our tongue with shouts of joy.

Then they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

When churches were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, our family watched a lot of Christian artists' YouTube videos as part of our Sunday morning service time.

My youngest son's favorite song to watch was Joy by For King and Country.

The music video begins with one TV news anchor warning of an impending storm, while another tries to interrupt with some good news.

The lyrics talk about how negative messages tend to bring us down and turn our hearts to stone, while the chorus notes that despite the hard circumstances, we can always choose joy.

So let's kinda begin with what exactly is AI, and how are students already using AI?

Okay.

I'll do the high level version 'cause there's lots of weeds when it comes to what it is.

But it, they're actually called large language models because all AIs, whatever which one they are, they are trained off of a lot of data and information.

The simple way to say it is they ate the internet, and so in eating the internet, a lot of crap comes out because they c- don't differentiate between good and bad information.

They only can do what they are fed.

They can only spit out what they are fed.

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Ephesians 3:16-19, "That according to the riches of His glory, He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have the strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." "I love you even on hard days," I told my son as I hugged him.

That day had been particularly challenging with fits of anger and back talking.

I said it as much to remind myself as to remind him.

Then a few weeks later, as I was having a hard day and trying to keep myself in check, he piped up from the backseat of the car, "Mom, I love you even on hard days." Isn't that what we all need? To know that no matter what happens, someone loves us and won't give up, even when we're at our worst? Jesus too knew and gave this kind of love.

Of course, He didn't have hard days because He himself misbehaved, but He still had hard days, especially in the week leading to the cross.