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Several years ago Steven Curtis Chapman recorded this song. It’s a prayer, really—one that resonates within my soul. I listen to it often. I sing it as best I can. Most of all, I make it my own constant prayer.

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird always comes in near the top of any survey of favorite books ever read, including my own. So it was no wonder that I chose it for study for one of my classes this term. The parable of the Good Samaritan, and Martin Luther jnr's famous speech are additonal readings, along with some Australian peotry that exposes the Australian experience of raciam.

I experienced something this week I would have chosen not to.

See my son is playing football, and he's pretty good if I do say so myself.  But that caused something to happen I wasn't feeling ready for.  He, as a sophomore, is starting at Center.  Right in the middle of things, playing with the big boys.  And he's really more ready for that than his father.

Gene Getz wrote in The Measure of a Man: 

My children are all adults, but I’ll never forget overhearing my four- and five-year-old daughters having an animated discussion in the living room. The youngest suddenly had a burst of insight and said to the oldest, “Hey, Renee, God is our heavenly daddy.” The oldest, who has always been philosophical, wasn’t quite sure how she felt about that comment and so the discussion continued. “But He is,” Robyn insisted. “He’s our heavenly daddy.”

 

Frankly, I was startled. It suddenly dawned on me that their image of God was their image of me. What an awesome thought! Needless to say, right there and then I made a deeper commitment to exemplify Jesus Christ in order to help my children develop a correct perspective intellectually and emotionally regarding their heavenly Father.

Author John Eldredge has a theory. He says that God has filled us with longings but that most of us really don’t know what to do with them. In fact, if we recognize them in ourselves at all, they scare us. He says we have three options to choose from when trying to deal with our desires: to be alive and thirsty, to be addicted, or to be dead. And then he makes the blunt statement that, because being alive with an unquenched thirst is so painful, “most of the world lives in addiction while most of the church has chosen deadness.” 

 It's  been a hard week this week. Everyone at school seems to either have a flu virus or else be fighting one off, myself included. We were all tired and edgy and, of course, the students are in the same boat, so sometimes classes were a bit fraught with tension! And I have some rsi issues to combat as well - these days of doing everything on computer have a down side.

It happens fairly regularly when someone finds out what I do they bring up organic food and often they ask me if I am involved in producing organic food.

Well, I answer that all food is organic, but in the sense they ask, the answer is no, I cannot for I am a Christian.

As you can imagine that gets a variety of responses, the least common of which is understanding.

Wow!  We have hobbled through successfully completed another week,  (I can say that even though it's Thursday because we are taking tomorrow off)After my first entry I was asked for the logistics in homeschooling 3 boys that are in 3 different grades so here it is:

LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of medication prayer.