One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: September 2009

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Basketball TRC style

Here are a few pictures of the team. I think the coach is extra awesome. He's my favorite every time my son gets on his team.

As the school year progresses I am amazed at my children yet one more time. A mother is supposed to brag on their children and so yet here it goes again.

As we were doing the regimented school stuff today, my daughter asked me to help her with a synonym. This meaning the same or similar was easy. It's the antonyms that get me. The word was "burden". As she is studying the roots of these words and thus had the definition, she was stuck on an appropriate synonym. As we talked about the different meanings of the word and what would be a good response, the word "problem" arose. At that moment my son, who was diligently working on his math, said "Bear ye one another's burden, as so fulfill the law of Christ" Gal.6:2. Where did that come from? The bible of course but where in his mind had that been sticking. I'll tell you where. Recently we had been having a family discussion on gossip and the difference of when you would discuss other peoples "problems" versus never discussing them but taking them to God instead, thus taking on their burdens. It was a long drawn out discussion with examples of how gossip rather than prayer can do damage to someone else, versus prayer rather than gossip, can help a person overcome their problems. Caleb wasn't necessarily in the conversation, yet he had obviously listed and absorbed the information, placing it away in his mind to be used when needed. It was a scripture he had learned his last year in bible quizzing. That in itself is more "homeschooling" than any textbook can teach him.

Isn't it amazing that the bible tells us to "train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6. What would have happened if we wouldn't have had that family discussion nor put an emphasis on the word of God. "God is our refuge and strenghth, a very present help in trouble." Psalms 46:1.

School is never a burden, and if it ever feels like it, I can simply take my "problems" to the One who is my strenghth. The One I find refuge in. Jesus.