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“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” — Genesis 2:3 (KJV) What does your Sabbath look like? Recently, I was reading that the Sabbath, or “Shabbat” in Jewish literature, is described as a...
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But I Did All the Hard Work!! by Brian Tonnell For months you have been trying to hammer into your child’s head the fact that completing the square requires dividing the middle term by two and then squaring it to find the third term. Over and over you practice with him,...
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Nurture Your Soul – Psalms Summer Devotions Series Summer Splendor by Cara McLauchlan “Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with ripply cheer Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now, because...
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Nurture Your Soul – Summer Devotions Series Discovery by Cara McLauchlan The only true voyage of discovery…would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another…” — Marcel Proust No summer would be complete without an adventure to the...
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Nurture Your Soul – Summer Devotions Series Take Your Time by Cara McLauchlan “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” — Eddie Cantor “Let’s take our...
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Nurture Your Soul – Summer Devotions Series Come Rest Awhile by Cara McLauchlan “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” ―Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine My Aunt Betty loved teatime. She was born in...
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Have you ever noticed how many times in the Book of Psalms the words lovingkindness and truth appear together? For Your lovingkindness is great to the heavens and Your truth to the clouds (Psalm 57:101). I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation (Psalm 40:10). Lovingkindness and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed...
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The Little Red Hen understood the real world. She asked for help as she planted, nurtured, harvested, milled, and baked. No one cared about helping with the work. Everyone wanted to enjoy the freshly baked bread. She rightly allowed only those who worked for the bread to enjoy it....
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It started with a dirt hill. The large, unassuming pile of fill dirt occupied the back corner of our church property. To us adults it represented the unfinished nature of our construction efforts. To our children, it represented adventure, strategy, and conquest. Every Sunday after our worship service the...
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It isn’t news that video games are increasingly a part of our culture. But there’s been a surprising lack of thoughtful consideration regarding something so influential, and into which so much time is being invested. I don’t only mean that there aren’t enough parents saying “video games are bad”...
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The Scriptures state, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven”1 including “a time to keep, and a time to cast away.”2 Clearly, we are exhorted to consider our time and actions carefully. In daily life as home educators, we are bombarded to get everything...
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In an earlier article, I discussed the dangers of perfectionism as exhibited in protectionism and power (see The Pitfalls of Perfectionism, Part I). In these follow-up thoughts, I want to explore two additional ways in which perfectionism might affect our personalities and the manner in which we interact with others....
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