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Teaching About God Made Attractive

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

Can you smell that?  Ahhhhhhh!  I love the smell of Fall...burning leaves; crisp, dry air with just enough chill to pull on your favorite sweater; bonfires, s'mores, hay-rides, camp-outs, treks down multi-colored leafy paths.  Ohio - land of the ever-changing temperature - is a great place to be in the Fall!

What does Fall mean to a homeschool 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 Christ's 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.  As you're walking down those colorful paths, no matter where you are in America, have your chidlren take their nature 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, 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 the beginning ~ learning from life, from what is around you.  Deut. 6:7 - "Impress them on your children.  Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up."  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 "make the teaching about God our Savior attractive."

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><

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01:58, 2007-Oct-23 .. Posted by clairebear

I enjoyed your post! :)