Galatians 6:9
Here’s the verse we are teaching our friends at church!
Matthew 28:6
We learned this verse to celebrate Easter! (Sorry, I am a week late posting.) We are enjoying the Iowa spring!
Philippians 2:3
Great verse this week from Timberlake Kidz that had a lot of relevance as we served the homeless this morning. I love studying the Word alongside Giana and putting it into action together.
Colossians 3:13
Giana is ready for Timberlake Kidz this week with her new verse!
And even though Mariel isn’t in the bigger class yet, she showed us tonight at dinner that she learned it too!
Matthew 7:24
Here is Mariel’s verse she learned in conjunction with her presentation about rocks! Much of her information came from creation.org. I loved hearing her little three-year-old voice said “igmeeous” “metamorffffffic” and “setamenteree.” Her volcano was also a big hit! But most importantly, she learned about The Rock.
She misquoted the reference in the video. We’ll work on it 🙂
2 Corinthians 5:17
So proud of Giana! She won the People’s Choice award for lower elementary at our homeschool group’s Expo tonight. She worked very hard on her presentation about the Lifecycle of the Butterfly!
She also learned a very important truth from the Bible. I pray that for the rest of her life, she thinks about this verse every time she sees a butterfly.
Parenting in Light of Eternity
We have been reading “You and Me Forever – Marriage in Light of Eternity” by Francis and Lisa Chan with our couple’s growth group. It is an amazing book that is available for free at www.youandmeforever.org. Like in his previous books, Pastor Chan shares scriptural truth with an eternal perspective that makes you want to tear down every idol built up in your life.
The book gave me a very different perspective in the responsibility of raising kids. It also gave me a new perspective in an old verse: “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!” (Psalm 127: 4-5).
I don’t think I ever reflected on the fact that it is good to fill your quiver with arrows BUT you still have to sharpen the heads, inspect the fletching and make sure is fully attached, make sure the shaft is straight, and that it doesn’t have cracks or splinters. If the head is not sharpened, the arrow wont penetrate its target; if the fletching falls, the arrow will spin out of control; if the shaft is not straight, it would fly at random angles; if it has cracks, the arrow would break; and if it has splinters, it would hurt the warrior’s hands once it is let loose.
Keeping an arrow sharpened requires grinding to keep the fletching attached. It needs to be tightened to keep the shaft straight. To be splinter-free, it requires heating in and hooking. All of these things put a lot of stress to the arrow, but isn’t it worth it if once you let it loose, you know it will serve its purpose?
It’s important to define the purpose of our arrows. Are they being upkeep for battle, to train once in a while, or simply to age in a quiver? Just like arrows our children will be let loose and they will fly their own course, but it will be up to the warrior’s upkeep if they serve their purpose and hit the target.