Meditation: (ages 4-7) Take a nature walk with your children. Pay attention to the plants and flowers and small creatures you see. Ask your children to walk very quietly with ears and eyes open. Then talk about what you have seen and the God is the Creator of it all. Ask your children to thank God for God’s creation by writing him a thank you letter. Write down your children’s words exactly as they say them. Save the thank you letter in a special place and reread with your child from time to time.

Lectio Divina (ages 8-11) Read and active story from the Bible aloud. Ask your child what stands out. Read the story again. This time ask what the setting looked like, what are the sounds, what the characters looked like. Read the story again. Ask, what did you hear in this story?

Scripture Meditation (ages 12-15) Encourage your teens to read through a chapter of the Bible at a slow pace, asking prayerfully, “God what do you want to say to me through this scripture?”

Adapted from Habits of a Child’s Heart: Raising Your Kids with the Spiritual Disciplines by Valerie E. Hess and Marti Watson Garlett.