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Today is the national Campaign to Spread the Word to end the Word in the hopes of convincing people to stop using the words retard and retarded as an adjective for things, or people, they do not like. Freedom of speech is important and powerful and with that freedom comes responsibility. We have the responsibility to make our words matter and to make them meaningful. Using speech to harm or hurt a segment of society that has done nothing to deserve such criticism is wrong, immoral and unacceptable. In our world of political correctness I find it difficult to understand why this word continues to be acceptable by so many people. People need to realize that every time you use the R word you are hurting people who have very little recourse or ways to defend themselves. So please, think before you speak. Think about how you can use words to build others up, not tear them down. Use words that will empower those who are weak, not simply make yourself feel strong at their expense. Your words truly affect people when you use them so choose your words wisely. If you want to make someone feel different, if you want your words to impact others, there is a way. This video will show you the power of your words. Which ones will you choose to use, words that hurt or words that heal? The choice is yours.
You know chore charts are not just for children. As I have been struggling trying to keep the house work up among all my summer activities, homeschooling projects, exercise, blogging, church activities and other every day life events I realized that I needed a hand. Since Gess is getting older and taking on more responsibility I though it was a good time to put some order into her routine of helping. Then Chelsie gave me a great idea that she uses. By breaking up my weekly chores into daily tasks I don't have to give up an entire day to nothing but cleaning house! Taking her idea and breaking up the daily chores I came up with the following list. There is one for each of us and an extra one that goes beyond the standard chores. It's the stuff we do at least once a week to keep our house neat and clean. What I love about it is that if something happens on that one day I had set aside to clean the house, it doesn't mean that my entire house gets neglected for anothe
As Gess is getting older we thought it was important to stress having some personal devotion time. I think she needs to know that she can pray and study God's Word anytime she chooses. We always begin her day learning something in the Bible together. Then I have her write and meditate on the portion of Scripture that was the focus for the day. Since she was doing some written work each day we thought it would be good to have a place to keep it all together so that could look it over later and remember what she has studied so far. So we made made her a notebook and titled it My Devotional and keep it with her bible. One of our early lessons this year was to memorize the 10 commandments. I recalled that Living Waters had a great resource for helping kids to memorize them so I went to their site and downloaded their 10 Commandments Learning Aids . They use these images to help tie the number to the actual commandment. They have a full presentation but here is the sheet with
Gess is 9 now and often asks questions in church. Lately we have had some people come forward for baptism. Gess now wants to get baptized too because others are doing it. She just really wants to be involved in everything we do. However, we are Baptist and believe that the bible teaches only those who are saved should be baptized or partake in the Lord's Supper. It is hard to explain to a child why they can't do these things. Then I had someone else who told me they had an 8 year old girl ask about baptism because she had seen someone get baptized at her church. Being surprised by the question they were not quite sure how to answer and asked if I could write something up to help explain it. I thought, what perfect timing. This is something I want to share with Gess too, so I did more than just write up a paper. I wrote a small booklet made specifically for young kids to help explain baptism. This booklet is meant to explain what baptism is and in doing that it touches
Today is the national Campaign to Spread the Word to end the Word in the hopes of convincing people to stop using the words retard and retarded as an adjective for things, or people, they do not like. Freedom of speech is important and powerful and with that freedom comes responsibility. We have the responsibility to make our words matter and to make them meaningful. Using speech to harm or hurt a segment of society that has done nothing to deserve such criticism is wrong, immoral and unacceptable. In our world of political correctness I find it difficult to understand why this word continues to be acceptable by so many people. People need to realize that every time you use the R word you are hurting people who have very little recourse or ways to defend themselves. So please, think before you speak. Think about how you can use words to build others up, not tear them down. Use words that will empower those who are weak, not simply make yourself feel strong at their expense. Your words truly affect people when you use them so choose your words wisely. If you want to make someone feel different, if you want your words to impact others, there is a way. This video will show you the power of your words. Which ones will you choose to use, words that hurt or words that heal? The choice is yours.
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