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If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, but have not love, I am a housekeeper - not a homemaker. If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not love, my children learn cleanliness - not godliness. Love leaves the dust in search of a child's laugh. Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on a newly cleaned window. Love wipes away the tears before it wipes up the spilled milk. Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys. Love is present through the trials. Love reprimands, reproves, and is responsive. Love crawls with the baby, walks with the toddler, runs with the child, then stands aside to let the youth walk into adulthood. Love is the key that opens salvation's message to a child's heart. Before I became a mother I took glory in my house of perfection. Now I glory in God's perfection of my child. As a mother, there is much I must teach my child, but the greatest of all is love.
If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, but have not love, I am a housekeeper - not a homemaker. If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not love, my children learn cleanliness - not godliness. Love leaves the dust in search of a child's laugh. Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on a newly cleaned window. Love wipes away the tears before it wipes up the spilled milk. Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys. Love is present through the trials. Love reprimands, reproves, and is responsive. Love crawls with the baby, walks with the toddler, runs with the child, then stands aside to let the youth walk into adulthood. Love is the key that opens salvation's message to a child's heart. Before I became a mother I took glory in my house of perfection. Now I glory in God's perfection of my child. As a mother, there is much I must teach my child, but the greatest of all is love.
Note from Lois: Moms, doesn't this give you some relief? Now go play with, listen to, read to, teach, lovingly discipline or just hug and cuddle your precious children! Housework can wait!
A POWERFUL POEM
We've all heard this poem before. May I suggest you memorize it and teach it to your children?
(Key Words: Sow and Reap ~ Thought ~ Act ~ Habit ~ Character ~ Destiny)
"Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny."
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny."
-- Unknown [Quoted by Scottish author Samuel Smiles]
TRY THIS EXPERIMENT OF THE WEEK
Note from Lois: Whether you homeschool, send your children to a Christian or public school, are a teacher yourself, have grown children or grandchildren, you will find Robert Krampf's weekly experiment interesting, educational and fun! Try turning them into object lessons to teach your children even more than science!
Adults will find this one fascinating too! It would even be fun to do at a party! We are fearfully and wonderfully made, as told in Psalm 139, and this is just one proof of that fact.
Ladies, you could also incorporate some of these experiments into interesting family devotions with your children. This is the main part of one of his latest newsletters. He went into more detail, but space is limited in this newsletter.
Adults will find this one fascinating too! It would even be fun to do at a party! We are fearfully and wonderfully made, as told in Psalm 139, and this is just one proof of that fact.
Ladies, you could also incorporate some of these experiments into interesting family devotions with your children. This is the main part of one of his latest newsletters. He went into more detail, but space is limited in this newsletter.
From Robert Krampf's Experiment of the Week
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This week, we will use the science of complex systems to confuse your body again. To try this, you will need: your hands and feet.
Lift your right foot about 6 inches off the ground. Now start moving it in circles, clockwise. As you continue doing that, use your right hand to draw a number 6 in the air in front of you. As you do that, you will find that your foot has changed directions and is now going counterclockwise.
Now, how did that happen? Although the experiment is easy, it is far from simple. It took quite a bit of digging to trace this trick back to Professor Haken and the science of Synergetics. This science deals with the ways that complex systems work. In a complex system such as your brain and nervous system, there are many different signals moving back and forth. Some of these signals are treated with more importance than others. Some of the signals also become coupled, with one signal guiding the other. That is what is happening with your foot and hand. Your hand movement couples with your foot movement, but your hand movement is treated with more importance, so your foot changes direction.
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