Thursday, May 31, 2018

Help For You IF You Home Educate a High Schooler ...

... if you have students you are home educating through their high-school years of learning, here are some links to help you along, as an instructor, tutor and / or parent:

https://www.homehighschoolhelp.com/

Lee Binz offers a number of very helpful materials, to help relieve your stress in keeping up with what is needed for your high-school and college-bound, student!
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If you go, today, or *very soon,* you can get a wonderful deal at Knowledge Quest Maps, for "Map Trek" --
https://knowledgequestmaps.com/product/map-trek-complete-collection/?inf_contact_key=3e43ab648406da1ab6ca43c50fb38e798c8a8fec51da9f55ea990b1e408b7b4a

https://knowledgequestmaps.com/

Terri Johnson offers you the maps you'll need for your home-educated student, even if he or she is younger than high-school level!  Check out her site!
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https://7sistershomeschool.com/
This site is filled with a bunch of helpful, creatively-thought-out, solutions to what you would prefer to use, instead of "textbook curriculum," I'd guess, if you think as I do!  Check this out!

Enjoy your adventures, as you learn more, as a parent, ... and as a believer in Yeshua, our Messiah, Elohim YHVH's only True Son, and our Redeemer, Savior and Master, Lord (Adonai)!



Thursday, May 3, 2018

Inspiration ... on this earth

My inspiration comes from The Creator, Whose artwork in His creation is wonderful!

His ways are higher than our ways.
His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

He paints the skies, even when the rich (who pay pilots to spew poisonous chemicals into our atmosphere, continue to try to poison us, our land & our water The Creator has given to us, as gifts) are intent on affecting The Creator's skies we see with chemicals that try to hide, or alter, our view toward His heavens.

My inspiration originates from His written Word.
He uses poetic language, in the form of prayer songs.
He also uses historical information, about kings, about people and about honorable spiritual leaders.
He also uses stories told (at times) in parable form.
He also uses metaphors, as well as concepts that lend themselves to being included in allegorical-type stories made into movies, by humans who want to try to translate His concepts into an acceptable, and thought-provoking, format, for anyone who's willing to view it.  We can learn a lot from these,
in our modern time, since so many will not take time to pick up a good book & read....

The artistic Creator, Who *is* creative, and brought forth the very concept of creativity into His world, onto His earth, ... has produced many amazing designs we can see while looking at a brook, or a small stream, or a creek, and noticing the ways the water flows over the many shapes and sizes of stones and rocks.

Our Creator has put design also into the limbs and trunks of trees, if we will but notice what He's done.
He also uses the orderly, and predictable, shapes to help us to recognize safe-to-eat species of plants -- or trees (by their type of bark, and color, and trunk direction, whether bent, or straight, or in between).

Our Father in heaven, Whose Creation He is allowing us to enjoy, today (I believe), wants us to appreciate what He has put here, on His earth, on loan to us.
He seems to allow us so much freedom of choice, so much free-will choosing, while also expecting us to act responsibly with our use of His creation.
He seems to want us to use it thoughtfully and ... He, then, will reward us if we do that.

Let's please The One on Whose earth we dwell ... by noticing the details in His created things, including the petals on flowers, as well as their aroma, or the aroma of blossoms we see at this time of year, ... while also noticing the multiplicity of edible plants, and flowers, He has placed here to help us.

Let's appreciate what He has done AND tell Him, each day, "a hearty Thank You!"  He deserves it.  We actually do not deserve what He has put here for us to use and to enjoy (responsibly).

If you have some thoughts to share, on this topic, and on a more specific topic within this topic of appreciating our Creator's beautiful and inspiring creation, leave me a comment, ... won't you?

Shalom