This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Christian Focus. They are giving away five-book sets of Tell God How You Feel: Helping Kids with Hard Emotions and God Hears Your Heart: Helping Kids Pray about Hard Emotions by Christina Fox. As emotional beings, we all have feelings. And in a fallen world, some of those feelings are difficult. Fear. Grief. Sadness. Disappointment. Guilt. Loneliness. Anger. We learn from an early age ways to navigate such hard emotions. For some of us, we learn to avoid or distract ourselves from painful emotions. Others “feed” our emotions through various temporary pleasures in the hopes of finding comfort. Still, others may cover them up and pretend they don’t exist. Yet the Bible teaches us another way: to bring all our hurts to God. Tell God How You Feel and God Hears Your Heart are part of a discipleship series designed for parents and caregivers to use in engaging their children with their emotions. It helps parents teach their children to bring their emotions to God and tell him what hurts. It teaches them Biblical lament. In these books, children are invited into the lives of brother and sister, Josh and Mia. They watch as these siblings experience hard emotions in life and learn to bring their cares to the Lord in prayer. Tell God How You Feel covers emotions including fear, sadness, loneliness, and rejection. God Hears Your Heart explores anger, disappointment, guilt, and failure. Each story ends with discussion questions for parents and caregivers to use … Continue reading Free Stuff Fridays (Christian Focus)