Sing the Word

We've been talking about how to get more scripture into our life.  Specifically, where we can see it -so we can read it and say it out loud and memorize it! 

My personal favorite is using a dry erase marker on any surface I can get way with  - 

white board, mirrors, windows, washing machine (so far it comes off ours), 

so I can see it as I walk around my house.

But there was a time when I had more kids in diapers than out... and they couldn't all read very good.  Well, some of them (KATY) came out reading, but a few of the others have had to learn.
It was our first year using Sonlight and we got the best scripture memory cd  -
 "Sing the Word from A to Z".  

Now, being married to a musician means that the music in your home might have to pass certain ...criteria.  For example, a certain purple dinosaur was never allowed (even I have ears)
but we still sing songs we learned from The Backyardigans.
"There's an echo, there's an echo, in this canyon, in this canyon."

So, of course, that magical criteria spilled over into any music we listened to in our home.
We looked for real songs with real musicians and real singers.
Including, the sweetest bible memory CD - "Sing the Word" by the Harrow family. 

The parents were real musicians and they put scripture to music for their kids to sing.
Do you remember seeing the  twins sing the books of the bible?  Sing the Word.

Jacob loved "Iron Sharpens Iron" and "The Battle is the Lord's" (about David and Goliath).  

Jacob and I read and sang and talked and acted out David and David's mother sooooo much,

that we even went through a season of being Goliath and Goliath's mom. 

 Of course, I have no pictures of those scenarios, but here's a few others you might enjoy. 

Everyone needs a turn to fight Goliath.

Do not even point out that David used 5 smooth stones. 

We all know the story, but Dad is always Goliath...

and we all have to practice taking down the bad guy.

*****Now back to MORE SCRIPTURE IN OUR LIVES. *****.

We still sing some of those songs we learned.  I think we ended up with 4 or 5 of their CDs.  

Sadly, CD's get scratched, lost and even forgotten.
But with our new push to get more scripture in, guess what Katy made me on Spotify....

my own playlist of all our favorite Sing the Word songs.

Isn't it sweet how some songs bring back a memory AND a memory verse with them. 

xoxo Jenn