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All Together Now Bundle

Our family love Awesome Cutlery. If you don’t know them, they’re a gospel–loving, music–making, comedy duo: Captain Awesomeness and Cutlery Boy. They’ve changed much of our lives: which CDs we listen to in the car, what my son thinks superheroes wear (cutlery belts), and even the way we say the word ‘brilliant’. Recently, they’ve also been changing our meal times. Not because they’ve launched their own line of eating utensils (which we’d buy if they did), but because they’ve written a family devotional. After the success of their first album, they have produced their second: ‘All Together Now’. It’s brilliant; full of accessible truth, great melodies and hilarious sketches. Each daily devotional is linked to a song, then has different elements like prayers or questions or fun activities of drawing challenges or three–legged walks (this worked better post–mealtime rather than during). The prayers are simple and are easy to understand. The questions are kid–friendly like, “Imagine being a king or queen. What would you like best about having servants?” It also has funny comments around the edges from Captain Awesomeness and explanations from Cutlery Boy. We’ve spent most evenings laughing at those; imagining them said in their familiar voices. In busy family life, these sessions have been a helpful resource. They’re easy and fun, but also provide valuable nuggets of truth to feed our hearts while we munch our meals. And as a side note, if you feel new to family devotionals – we did too! Be encouraged and give this one a go. They’ve done most of the hard work already. Except trying to get kids to walk with their legs tied together. They’ve left that job for you.

Kath Giles