A Miss PattyCake Blog!!

Well friends – and I call you friends knowing, “My friends are here!”  Here I am to chat with you.  Encouraged by my family and friends, and driven by desire to share with any reader that TRULY, Miss PattyCake IS…

MORE THAN A NURSERY RHYME!

Here, I hope to introduce myself – my JEAN self - to you, and tell you some of the wonderful / fun / life-changing experiences I have had during  17 years of being “Miss PattyCake”.  

To begin – I want to tell you this:  There is a big, fat “WHY” behind the “WHAT”  of Miss PattyCake.  The “why”  began in 1991, when our daughter was born.  At that time, I was one of the worship leaders at my church in Franklin, TN, and I understood the importance of “singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord.”  My life had been profoundly affected by Psalm 40:3, “He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of PRAISE  to God…”  So when our daughter came along, and shortly after (16 months) our son was born, I knew it was my job to teach them all about God, and have them join me in PRAISING HIM.

These 2 verses became, for me, the foundation of the “WHY” of Miss PattyCake:

Deut. 6:5-6 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all you soul, and all your strength.  And now talk to your children about the Lord. Repeat these commands again and again.  When you rise up, and lie down, when you are on a journey or at home.”

Psalm 8:2  (The Message) “Nursing infants gurgle choruses about You. And toddlers shout the songs that drown out enemy talk, and silence atheistic babble.”

Our Father has given us (parents) the ENORMOUS responsibility to teach and train our little ones.  Miss PattyCake is here to assist!  I LOVE the privilege of speaking into the lives of little ones.  I LOVE helping moms and dads as they labor to obey God.  This is the reason I keep puliing on my tights, sliding my feet into those “Mary Janes”,  putting on my smile and reminding US ALL -  we have “2 hands to clap, 1 heart to love, a voice to sing, sing, sing – and every song can give THANKS and PRAISE TO GOD!

EVERYDAY IS A PATTYCAKE PRAISE DAY!