Inspiration
A sense of God's wholeness . . . will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
Philippians 4:7 (MSG)
A sense of God's wholeness . . . will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
Philippians 4:7 (MSG)
Reading and Learning
How do you know when God is at the center of your life? When God is at the center, you worship. When He's not, you worry. Worry is the warning light that God has been shoved to the sideline. The moment you put Him back at the center, you will have peace again.
p. 312
Sir William Osler was the most famous physician of his generation. . . . In a commencement address at Yale University, Osler told the students that he owed his success to a simple principle he learned from Thomas Carlyle. He called it: living in day-tight compartments. He told the students that they needed to let go of dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows. "The load of tomorrow," he said, "added to that of yesterday, carried today, make the strongest falter."
p. 159-160
After taking a break yesterday Michael and I jumped back into his schoolwork today. I asked him what some of his favorite things were that he learned about today. Here are few of his favorites - In History he enjoyed learning about George Washington writing the first draft of the Declaration of Independence; in Science he enjoyed the introduction to the theory of wormholes. And from our Bible lesson his favorite verse was "We know that God raised the Lord Jesus from the dead. And He will raise us up with Jesus. He will bring us with you to God in heaven. 2 Corinthians 4:14 (NIrV)
How do you know when God is at the center of your life? When God is at the center, you worship. When He's not, you worry. Worry is the warning light that God has been shoved to the sideline. The moment you put Him back at the center, you will have peace again.
p. 312
Sir William Osler was the most famous physician of his generation. . . . In a commencement address at Yale University, Osler told the students that he owed his success to a simple principle he learned from Thomas Carlyle. He called it: living in day-tight compartments. He told the students that they needed to let go of dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows. "The load of tomorrow," he said, "added to that of yesterday, carried today, make the strongest falter."
p. 159-160
After taking a break yesterday Michael and I jumped back into his schoolwork today. I asked him what some of his favorite things were that he learned about today. Here are few of his favorites - In History he enjoyed learning about George Washington writing the first draft of the Declaration of Independence; in Science he enjoyed the introduction to the theory of wormholes. And from our Bible lesson his favorite verse was "We know that God raised the Lord Jesus from the dead. And He will raise us up with Jesus. He will bring us with you to God in heaven. 2 Corinthians 4:14 (NIrV)
Today the preschoolers focused on the letter Oo. Oo is for Oak. They practiced tracing the letter and colored a picture of an oak tree. Then we learned about the life cycle of an oak tree and what stages came 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
In the Kitchen
While we were outside this morning I picked some of the ever abundant broadleaf plantain. When we came inside for lunch I washed the leaves and then had the kids put them on dehydrator trays while I worked on heating up lunch. I put the dried plantain in the freezer and use in soups, stews and casseroles as an herb. Plantain is high in vitamins A and C, and also high in calcium. I wrote more about this plant in this post - Plantain - A Wonderful Weed.
Outdoor Fun
Pepper loved getting lots of attention from the kids while we played outside today. And I had one little chicken anxious to get out of the box and play in the grass. I bring them out with us and let them loose in a cage while we play outside so they can start getting used to the outdoors. They should be ready to go out for good in the next week or so.
Quote of the Day
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep street so well that all the hosts of heaven will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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