Thursday, November 12, 2009 - Positive or Negative?

This is an audience participation post. (Actually all my blog posts are!)  I have a practical question at the end, but I can never simply and directly get to the point.  I've got to ramble first and show pictures.  Speaking of pictures--have you ever noticed that photo negatives are rather disturbing?  They have a disquieting way of turning familiar people and animalsinto freakish creatures with black cavernous mouths and spooky white eyes.    These particular shots were eerily fascinating to me in negative form:  The "positive" of these pictures are less otherworldly and marine.  (I live in Wyoming; marine life is otherworldly.)  In fact the photos are commonplace, flat and the lighting was awful.  These pictures were taken in the loft of our barn, not because I think they'd be interesting photographic subjects, but because I'm hopeful that others can help me identify them. We are cautious going up to the barn loft these days, choosing cool days when the wasps will be sluggish.  Attached to the door of the loft are the following homes. Ok, so here's my question: what inhabits these dwellings?  I'm pretty sure at least one of the types is a wasp nest.  We'd like to evict our unwelcome waspish tenants, but we don't want to mistakenly vanquish any little honey bee friends.   In short, are they positive or negative?

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Nov. 12, 2009 - Just Some Evidence

Trinity:

Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

The man was accountable:

Gen 2:16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."

There is so much I see here. I love the differences in roles of husbands and wives. They glorify God. In the beginning the differences began.

Gen 2:22 The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Gen 3-Eve added to what God said. She, like many wives today, first listened to what she shouldn't have, then doubted God, then added to what God said. Why did God not show the man to be deceived? There is significance here.

Gen 3:6 Eve had so many reasons to justify her actions. So many times we wives do the same thing with why we want to be leading our families rather than our husbands. Those reasons can't stand up to this or Gen 3:16 '...Yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.' How many times do wives gloss over that last part? RULE OVER YOU...God cursed people for the sin in the garden. Even if a wife gets her husband to let her lead, she will not win in the end.

Well, that is just a smidge of what stood out to me recently in a fresh light. We will not outreason or outsmart God's word or His truth. I find it comforting. Parameters are easier to function within than a wide open space.

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Nov. 12, 2009 - Holding Back Tears of Joy

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Nov. 13, 2009 - Thanksgiving Dolls

Not to be outdone by her mother my daughter spent yesterday afternoon putting together Pilgrim and Indian outfits for her dolls.  :^)


I love the way that girl thinks! 

Happy Homeschooling,

Jamin

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Nov. 12, 2009 - Greece & Rome

We are really enjoying our unit study! I really like History so units like this are just my thing. :)
 
Today the children are coloring some Greek Architecture and creating their own newspaper about the first Olympics.
We have done our vocabulary words for the day, math, bible, etc..

Next week we are going to add some Thanksgiving lessons to our school plans. And of course some decorating.. :)

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