Titus 2:10(b) - "...make the teaching about God our Savior attractive."

Can you smell that?  Ahhh!  I love the smell of Fall...burning leaves; crisp, dry air with just enough chill to put on yor favorite sweater; bonfires, s'mores, hay-rides, camp-outs, treks down multi-colored leafy paths.  My state, Ohio - land of the ever-changing temperature - and many other states that experience fall color, is a great place to be in the Fall!

What's Fall mean to a Ohio family?  God's creative genius!  WOW!  Who else could show us that even the end of something can be beautiful?  It's like the grand finale of a fireworks display!  "Behold, I make all things new!"  What a great time of year to walk down a leaf-strewn path and teach our children about the truth of new life in Jesus Christ...REAL life lessons.  That His ugly death opened up the beautiful gates of Heaven for us!  As Christians, our death is beautiful in the eyes of the Lord because it actually signals the beginning of NEW life...Ps. 116:15 - "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of Your servant."  

In our natural world, God has made the "death" of the Summer a beautiful thing...especially here in Ohio and the Mid-West.  As you're walking down those colorful paths, have your children take their nture journal with them to draw what they see...God's world ablaze with glorious color!  Collect a few leaves, press them between sheets of waxed paper, label them and put them in their nature journal and include information about that particular tree.

This is the type of learning, the homeschooling, that has taken place since Adam and Eve.  It follows the Lord's command to "Impress them on your children.  Talk aobut them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get."  (Deut. 6:7)  In the homeschool home, learning takes place ALL the time.  Every season is a new way to teach the love and faithfulness of the Lord; however, Fall, of all seasons, is a perfect season to "mae the teaching about God our Savior attractive."

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><