Devoting time for family; Daily calendar creator hopes to bring people together
Published 8:24 am Friday, December 25, 2015
Randy Krulish has recently released a calendar of daily devotions. He hopes families will spend more time together because of it. Photos by Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com
Holidays are about bringing family closer together, and one local man hopes to do just that through a daily devotional calendar.
“I felt like it was something I needed to do,” Randy Krulish from Lyle said. “I’m happy with the way it turned out and I’m hoping we can touch some lives through it somehow.”
Krulish, a quadriplegic since 1966, felt the need to write the daily devotional calendar weighing on his heart.
The calendar started when he was asked by a good friend to write a devotional calendar for children.
“It’s something I’ve wanted to do,” Krulish said. “I love kids, I’ve always loved them and connected well with them, and I’ve had a chance to speak at a lot of schools and I’ve connected with a lot of kids.”
After thinking about the calendar, though, he realized he wanted to connect with every age group, and he couldn’t write the same thing for an 8-year-old as an 18-year-old. So he decided to make it a family calendar. The calendar features a Bible verse on each page, along with a reflection and a prayer. Each day has a different topic, reflection, prayer and Bible verse. Krulish, a member of Cornerstone church, hopes to provide families with an instrument to come together and have discussions, bringing them closer to each other and their faith.
Copies of Randy Krulish’s “Teach Them The Way” sit on a table in his Lyle apartment.
“Families nowadays have a hard time connecting with their busy lives, so if they could sit down for 10 or 15 minutes and reflect on what [the verse] means to them, that would be nice,” he said.
“Time where they can connect with their family, at least maybe 15 minutes of the busy day,” he added. “And kind of talk about what the reflection means to them, how it applies to their life, and hopefully go on their faith journey that way.”
Krulish said both his faith and his family have been staples in his life, and if he could get families to connect over their faith it would be a great thing. He said sometimes he had specific things in mind for specific days, but other days he would search for something that would support the reflection. Krulish started writing the calendar in October or November of 2014, and it took him about a year to finish. He said he’s already gotten few orders for the calendar, and though he doesn’t like to put himself in the public eye much, he wanted to do what he felt he was supposed to do.
This isn’t the first time Krulish has written something, though. In 2013, he wrote a calendar about daily reflections on God’s blessings, which focused on appreciating the things we already have. In 2012, he released a memoir about his life, “Walk,” detailing his diving accident at age 12 and everything he’d gone through before and since. He wrote both his book and the daily devotional with a mouth stick, which he gets about 15 to 20 words a minute on now.
“It’s a lot of work but it’s something that was on my heart and it’s something I felt I needed to do,” Krulish said.
The devotional is $14 and can be ordered through Krulish at 507-325-4539 or rkrulish@mchsi.com, or through Julie Bigaouette at 952-226-4170 or jbigao@hotmail.com.
