Monday -Balloons, Games, Sign Language and More

We started our week out with balloons (Thank you Michael)

Inspiration

Learn to do right; seek justice.

Defend the oppressed.

Take up the cause of the fatherless;

plead the case of the widow.

Isaiah 1:17

Reading and Learning

The Christian worldview also tells us that humans have an eternal destiny,which likewise bolsters human dignity. Throughout history, most cultures have had a low view of the individual, subordinating the individual to the interests of the tribe or state. And if Christianity were not true, this would be quite reasonable. "If individuals live only seventy years," said C. S. Lewis, "then a state or a nation, or a civilization, which may last for a thousand years, is more important than an individual. But if Christianity is true, then the individual is not only more important but incomparably more important, for he is everlasting and the life of a state or a civilization, compared with his, is only a moment." This explains why Christianity has always provided not only a vigorous defense of human rights but also the sturdiest bulwark against tyranny. 

And because we all stand on equal ground before God, Christianity gives a sound basis for social and political equality. Each individual stand directly accountable before the Creator, writes Abraham Kuyper; there are no intermediaries, no spiritual hierarchies between us an God. It follows, then,  that we "have no claim whatsoever to lord [it] over one another, and that we stand as equals before God, and among men." Consequently, the Christian worldview "condemns, not merely all slavery and systems of caste, but also all covert slavery of women and of the poor,"

Multiculturalists insist that all cultures are morally equivalent. But this argument blurs over genuine differences. For in a culture that truly upholds the God-given dignity of individuals, widows are not burned on the husband's funeral pyre (as they are in India), people are not sold into slavery (as they are in the Sudan and elsewhere), and life is not sacrificed to satisfy ancestors or an angry god (as still happens in some primitive cultures). No, for all the faults of its adherents - and there have been many- Christianity has accorded men and women dignity unlike any other belief system in the world. 

pg. 131

Workbooks 

As we worked through circle time we practiced sign language letters and looked for our sight words in the story about the snail.

Kylin chose a memory match game for game time after nap .

Outdoor Fun

This is the only picture I got outside but it's such a happy one!

In the Kitchen

Lunch!

On My Mind

The portion of the book I quoted above has been rolling around my mind the last few days. I love the truth in it but it reminds me again how far Christians have often strayed from this truth. It's sad that Christ and the Christian faith have been so badly represented by so many who call themselves Christians. It makes me reexamine my own and actions and reactions as I interact with the world around me. As a follower of Christ it is so important that I truly reflect His love, and that I show others that I see their value as individuals created in the image of God.

Quote of the Day

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of His.

~ Meir Soloveichic