Chapter 7 of Vol.2 WEAVER is all about Celebration and JOY!
I can't think of a better topic to study in our homeschooling than this one!
I have already been so blessed by looking at different holidays. We learned that our word holiday actually comes from the two words HOLY DAYS meaning a religious celebration. I wonder if we are truly conscious of the true meanings of our holidays.
The kids and I have been looking at the Jewish Passover this week.
Our memory verse is from 1 Cor. 5:6-8 which says "Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor the leaven of malice or wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
Thanks be to GOD!
We keep going back to the fact that the leaven is a symbol for us of sin. Just a little sin soon spreads into every part of us and will affect our lives. The only way to be unleavened is to have Christ Jesus within us.
Today the kids wrote TANKA poems of praise to God about a holiday.
H picked Easter and wrote~
Hallelujah Praise!
Hallelujah Praise!
Amazing God gave His Son
Hallelujah Praise!
Jesus died and rose again
All my sins are washed away
JR picked 4th of July and wrote~
Americans WE
Americans we
A Godly nation set free
People came from ships
From our neighbors to the sea
In our great God alone we trust
Dear God I pray that you make us keenly aware of the reasons we celebrate.
The life and times of the McCullochs WEAVING in NM.
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these." George Washington
Jan. 27, 2008 - Blessed!