I would really like to explore characteristics fitting for a daughter of royalty. I would like the study to be for 10 - 12 YO girls....I can adapt. I may end up adding a study or blurbs on historical princesses to the study. We could watch some movies and add in fun hands-on projects. I may have to write my own study, and that is fine as I still have two little girls at home, but if there is something out there, I'd like to go that route.
Share away.... BTW thanks for all who responded to the Lent post last Saturday. I've had a few books show up from PBS and Amazon this week. I'm also up to my eyebrows in the Biblical Holiday book.
Updated 18 Feb - Princesses Part Two
I CANNOT get away from this and finally came to the place of surrender last night – if I can’t find what is on my heart – I am willing to write it and will trust that God will provide the time and arrange my priorities to allow the time for writing……and the study that goes BEFORE writing a Bible Study. It would HAVE to be AFTER I’m done with the current study in Ephesians.
I want a study that treasures our daughters, teaches them the Biblical values of being female; I want it to be intergenerational; I want to focus on the character and responsibilities of godly princesses, and then just last night “identity, rights, responsibilities” popped into my mind as I drifted to sleep – maybe the chocolate or maybe the outline for 3 studies or one long study. ::snort:: I’ve begun brainstorming for Biblical princesses – and there aren’t many mentioned that I’d want my daughters to imitate…though…um…just last night and this a.m. I realized that the Proverbs 31 woman would have been a queen/princess (though I know “she wasn’t real; she was an ideal”)….so that may well be the basis of my study….and I know there are studies out there on Proverb 31 – are they intergenerational? Do they present the princess idea?
Why the princess idea? I vividly remember telling my older girls "quit acting like a princess." A few months ago, those words began to rattle in my brain and heart. I was CONVICTED. My daughters ARE Princesses and while the world's view of a princess is pampered, spoiled, and selfish, that is not the picture of a noble, godly princess. My daughters are daughters of the King of Kings. They ARE royalty. I WANT them to act like true princesses. I want them to have the confidence to stand out in their generation. I want them to be noble and caring. I want them to put duty and mission above self. I want them, in short, to know all they are in God and to walk in that identity. Females can readily relate to the “princess” idea – many dream of what it would be like to be a “real” princess.
Why is this so strong in my spirit? I haven’t a clue, but I’ve told God I’ll search for the resources and if I don’t find them and IF He makes it clear that I’m to write it – I will. LOL I think it could be a totally life-changing, fun, interesting, affirming inductive study for young girls and moms.
Have any of you seen such a study or been part of such a group? I think I'll cross post this on some yahoo lists.
