Hello!! I'm Amy Tuttle co-founder and owner of F.A.I.T.H ~ Fisher Academy Int'l Teaching Home... In our house, the learning never stops, we are ALL still learning and loving it! This blog is to document life at home as it happens... And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/amada/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0600 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0600 I only have a just a second here, but wanted to say that we will be driving to Trujillo again tomorrow and next.  So, anyone who reads this blog can pray!  For a little more current info on our life work, see our ministry blog here: http://thetuttletribe.blogspot.com For the latest learning at our house, go here: http://fisheracademy.blogspot.com And I have a couple of meaningful posts from my personal study that maybe someday I will have time to post right HERE!  :) Don't get too hopeful though...  I'm too busy to be so serious of a blogger!  I am my Beloved's and He is mine. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/amada/745556/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/amada/745556/ We assume the sun will always rise. It always has. But it rises because God continues to will it so, not because it must in and of itself. I breathe, not because I am a smoothly functioning breathing machine, but because He who holds my breath in his hand wills me to breathe, as He wills the squirrel to breathe in the oak grove beside my house and the crow that perches in the scrub pine. The will of God is not a given quantity. It is creative, dynamic, flowing action. Jesus participated in that action by submitting to the Will and moving with power along the "appointed way," according to the "appointed time," choosing the Father's will above his own. The sun does no choosing. God chooses--every morning so far--to make it rise. Yet the Lord of the universe asks me to choose to follow Him--to participate, as Christ did, in the flowing action which is his will. "Dwell in my love. If you heed my commands, you will dwell in my love, as I have heeded my Father's commands and dwell in His love" (Jn 15:10 NEB). Author: Elisabeth Elliot Source: A Lamp For My Feet Scripture Reference: John 15:10 I am my Beloved's and He is mine. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/amada/715985/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:21:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/amada/715985/ Just take a look at these headlines: Psychologists repudiate gay-to-straight therapy"The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments. Instead, the APA urged therapists to consider multiple options — that could range from celibacy to switching churches — for helping clients whose sexual orientation and religious faith conflict." Gov't insurance would allow coverage for abortion Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal policy on the divisive issue. Federal funds for abortions are now restricted to cases involving rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother. Abortion opponents say those restrictions should carry over to any health insurance sold through a new marketplace envisioned under the legislation, an exchange where people would choose private coverage or the public plan.   As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"  Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ, 'and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.                                            ~ Matthew 24:3-14 "The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron."                               ~ 1 Timothy 4:1-2 When I hear these things, I think the end must be soon.  I can't believe this.  You know what they are doing don't you?  The Bible says that homosexuality is sin.  But, if they (worldly psychologists) come at it this way, they will get a whole bunch of people thinking that, 'If being a homosexual is something you can't help, then believing and supporting the Bible is bigotry. The Bible must be wrong.'  Oh, Holy God, help us who remain to be faithful witnesses!  ...and the government healthcare program (that I don't support, BTW) is going to cover abortion?  Killing its own citizens?!  Hello?  Scary enough as that is, I know that it won't stop there.  However dreary this is, there is one way in which this news is encouraging: Jesus is coming soon. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words. I am my Beloved's and He is mine. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/amada/714679/ Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:30:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/amada/714679/ I have become the kind of blogger that thinks up blog posts in her mind and RARELY gets them posted... I'm just TOO busy! But, heh.  Life isn't about blogging... it's about living, right? Well, the last weeks have been SO full of traveling from Tarapoto (the jungle) to Trujillo (the city), finding our house all packed up, not wanting to unpack because I'll be packing again at the end of the month, needing bowls, plates, cookware etc, having to unpack it... Sorting kids clothes because my kids came back to winter in the city from the hot and humid jungle looking like RAG-A-MUFFINS!  We got haircuts (all of us) and made the wardrobe update/transfer, and now we're feeling MUCHO mejor {better}.  The last two weeks, Micah has been uber-busy with preparation of classes, interpreting for the English guest professor, teaching his own classes and running the program for the practical hands-on side of things at the Institute.  Which has left me at home (surrounded by boxes) with the kiddos trying to figure out what to do first... So far, like I've mentioned, I've unpacked clothes, sorted half of our stuff in the storage closet (extra bedding, crafts, clothes to grow into, etc) and have yet to go through the other half.  I've got to get rid of loads of stuff, becuase as of now, the plan is to find a tiny apartment here in Trujillo that we can use as a base for every module that we come back for IBEM... and take the rest to the JUNGLE.  I only want to take the bare necessities to Tarapoto though because the humidity is not very friendly towards anything paper or fabric.  So... decisions, decisions.  I'm working on inventory-ing clothes, shoes, and homeschool stuff so that I can stock up when I am in the US in August.  To make a long story short, about a year ago Micah's parents bought him and PrettyPinkPrincess tickets to fly back to take some classes, and PPP wasn't able to fly... so NOW we're using the credit for that ticket and my airmiles to make a trip before the credit expires!  Yay.  So, that brings you all about up to speed on my life :)  Keep in touch... leave a comment or e-mail me! Much Love, I am my Beloved's and He is mine. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/amada/711253/ Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:38:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/amada/711253/