Author: everfaith

I am a homeschooling mom who enjoys reading, writing, gabbing, photography, desktop publishing, and letting someone else do the cooking. I love my Superman husband, precious daughter, 2 dogs, my neighbor (that means you!) and Jesus.
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The Wild Western Wise One

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Finally! A moment to study and write. With last week’s spring break coming on the heels of the time change, it’s been an adjustment getting our homeschool back in the groove these past two days. But, I am happy to report, we have overcome and are on the road to wisdom and knowledge! Speaking of that illustrious road, I promised to write about a different character found in Proverbs. Previously, I read with chagrin and blogged about the characteristics of The Fool. It’s not a complete picture, though, without taking a look at The Fool’s opposite: The Wise. Picture the … Continue reading The Wild Western Wise One

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Who Owns You?

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This graphic appeared today on FoxNews.com: May the Lord please grant us mercy!  We reap what we sow (as we learn in Proverbs), and the borrower is servant to the lender.  With so many restrictions on religious freedom in China, our country’s lender, I pray our lawmakers will not spend us into slavery. But the only One who owns me personally…my heart, my soul, my mind, and my strength…is Jesus Christ. Continue reading Who Owns You?

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The Fool in me

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I have been slowly reading Ted Tripp’s book, Shepherding a Child’s Heart.  Our homeschooling mom’s group meets once monthly to view a video and discuss aspects of the book and ways to apply what we are learning in our own lives.  I like this “take” on child-rearing because it goes so much deeper than surface-area behavior.  The book discusses ways that parents, using Jesus and God’s word, can look past misbehavior and into their children’s hearts.  Why not just focus on the behavior itself? That’s what I learned in college.  I remember a class dedicated to different methods of “behavior … Continue reading The Fool in me

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Itching Ears Want To Hear

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Texas state Representative Joe Deshotel wants to use taxpayer money to pay kids who make good grades in school.  Not every kid, of course.  Just the ones attending low-performing schools.  He proposed to use stimulus money to shell out $50 per kid per A for the “core” subjects — English, math, science and social studies.  Students who make Bs would get $35 per grade and those who make Cs would get a mere $20.  (see story here).  Hmm.  Maybe I should go back to high school!  What ever happened to earning an education? It’s just another case of the ABCs … Continue reading Itching Ears Want To Hear

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ABCs flying out the window

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Now, granted. I am not a lawyer. I am not a senator and am especially not the president of a country. However, I am an American educator. I even have the credentials to prove it. Yup. I’ve been to the grand old university and learned lots of useless facts and figures. The very best training I received was on-the-job. I read everything there was in print about managing classroom behavior and educational theory…but I didn’t have a clue how to hold the interest and attention of a rowdy group of six year olds. The teacher books didn’t tell me what … Continue reading ABCs flying out the window