Sunday Funday April 26
We did more music videos: Example of Mother’s Day Song, Wheels on the Bus, and Happy and You Know It
Super excited about this new Module for the International school! If you’d like to see more, check out the post later on in the Interweb Reads. I also did a Calendar/Weather video for the students.
Prayers and Praises
Prayers as we are putting things together and planning to go back to online school! Praises as things are going very well. Prayers for all the children (like from Living Stones) that go to public school and don’t have good online options.
Praises as people have really come together in Brazil and in the USA to donate for food baskets here—and all over the world, especially in India where the need is so great. We’ve been able to give food baskets at all 5 of our Living Stones locations—even the newest one with Flavio, seven hours away!
Praises as I was able to have a virtual retreat with missionary women all over the world last week! My husband watched the girls for three mornings while I hid away, locked in the guest room, and enjoyed some really beautiful devotionals and testimonials from Velvet Ashes.
Interweb Reads
Easy English Essay Module: I am super excited about this! Originally put together for my 8/9th graders, now that we are starting online, I have been able to streamline it and put the whole course easily online for other people wanting to learn—especially Living Stones workers and kids! I have 6 other modules in the works—and it is gonna be good! (Five Minutes of Fergie)
Preparing Your Heart to Retreat: A little bit more about the lovely retreat I was able to participate in! Definately suggest it! (Velvet Ashes)
Not Just Any Rock: “I took the broken-off piece of that rock and hid it in a corner of our house. I took the larger piece with me to California. I didn't tell anyone I was doing this, and looking back, I'm actually pretty shocked that as a twelve-year-old, I thought of something so symbolic. I was leaving part of myself in Liberia. When I returned, I would be complete again.” (Everyone Needs a Little Grace in their Lives)
Entitled to Suffer: “In the midst of all that, my friend reflected, “In order to attain a theology of suffering, one must suffer.” I have never forgotten those words. They’re particularly poignant coming from an American worldview. The American psyche does not accept suffering well. Our culture feels entitled to not suffer, as if all the hard work and thinking and planning and determination and zeal that were instilled in and passed down by our forebears grants us a “get out of suffering free” card. This is our American Theology of Suffering: we have the knowledge and willpower to combat and defeat suffering if we choose to. We get confused at best, offended at worst, when we suffer anyway. That perspective doesn’t seem to line up with a biblical view of suffering.” (A Life Overseas)