tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77852399945372401222024-03-05T23:16:32.751-05:00Clark ChatterGingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13910562548296620853noreply@blogger.comBlogger1087125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785239994537240122.post-79549652066447786762014-04-18T09:52:00.002-04:002014-04-18T09:58:57.766-04:00Good Friday!Today we celebrate the day that Jesus took all the wrath our sins deserve on Himself as He died on the cross in our place. What glorious grace!<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sn-TSrNlS8">Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqiF6-zzdjs">Jesus Paid It All</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtsxdtEN_G4">Nothing But the Blood</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkx8WAycYAc">When I Survey the Wondrous Cross</a><br />
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I love these ideas from <a href="http://www.doorposts.com/blog/2014/04/17/teaching-tools-for-good-friday/">Doorposts</a>:<br />
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<li style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Look for a recipe online, and make <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hot cross buns </strong>together, or braid a batch of bread dough into a wreath, and then poke toothpicks at all angles into it to form a<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">crown of thorns</strong> for an edible centerpiece at your table.</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Darken the house</strong> on Friday evening and all day Saturday. Turn off or dim most of the lights and put a black tablecloth on the table. Have your children help remove any flowers or plants, and decorate with bare branches or stones instead. Leave the house dark on Saturday, and before everyone gets up on Sunday morning, redecorate with candles, plants, a bright tablecloth, and an Easter lily or other flowers.</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Use this great idea from <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://mustardseeds.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/04/good-friday-activity-jesus-died-for-me.html" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mustard Seeds</a>.</em> With a permanent marker, make a <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">red mark</strong> on the top part of each family member’s hands to remind each of you of the nail wounds Jesus endured on the cross to save us. Use a fine-tip black marker to write each person’s name across their red “wound”. What a visual reminder of the fact that Jesus died for <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">each </em>of us!<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em>Don’t be afraid to tell your children that Jesus <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">suffered </em>for them!</li>
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening</div>
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The Legend of the Candy Cane<br />
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Saint Nicholas: The Real Story of the Christmas Legend</div>
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The Little Fir Tree </div>
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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey </div>
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When a widow asks the town hermit to carve a nativity set for her son, a new friendship is slowly formed and a man gets a reminder of joy. We always follow up the book with the movie. Love both.<br />
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One Wintry Night</div>
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Christmas Tapestry </div>
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Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657460163379486396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785239994537240122.post-24869890559341071992013-03-20T08:00:00.000-04:002013-03-20T08:00:09.400-04:00Happy Spring!<div><span ><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/27920977?title=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div><span ><br /></span></div><div><span >What an awesome Creator we serve! Even the flowers bring Him praise.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/395/C7CBB5921B5090D7B7D92BD0B37352F2.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;" /></a>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657460163379486396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785239994537240122.post-86229105008154415942012-11-19T20:34:00.002-05:002012-11-19T20:34:18.978-05:00A Biblical View of Motherhood<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="281" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_0qRNx-fyMI?rel=0" width="500"></iframe>
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I really loved this. So many adoption truths in this movie.<br />
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Judah is pulling up on everything and has started cruising now. His main form of transportation is crawling though, since I now know <a href="http://clarkchatter.blogspot.com/2012/03/dont-skip-crawling.html">how important it is</a>. He has recently been going through a growth spurt - "a sleep spurt" as I call it; he's sleeping late in the morning and taking long naps. I miss him! </div>
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So, I've been struggling with this big dilemma since Judah was a newborn: What to do with his hair.</div>
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He has a cowlick in the front that makes his hair go his left, and a cowlick at his crown that makes his hair go to his right. What's a mom to do? The struggle of how to handle this has kept me up nights (ok maybe it was just insomnia).</div>
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I LOVE being able to witness all the educational milestones of my children with my very own eyes. It's such a blessing to have the freedom to do this!</div>
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But don't forget to always bring it back to the gospel! That's the WHOLE POINT! If we've given our kids an excellent academic education, but haven't educated them about the their sin and their need for a Savior, we have really really missed the boat.</div>
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Have you had the pleasure of having someone this in love with you? It's really fabulous.<br />
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<li style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">specific "tidy up" times (we do one in the morning and one in late afternoon) so I don't have to constantly be correcting the children for not picking up after themselves</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">chores only after school (I'm not including setting table and the like here, just stuff like vacuuming, dusting, watering plants, sweeping the porch, etc. Trash is the exception. It has to be taken out in the morning.)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have learned to develop a team mentality when it comes to where things belong. I like to think it's <i>my </i>kitchen, but since I depend on my kids to do so many kitchen tasks, it's really a team effort to keep it running. So I figure I won't be the boss of where stuff goes until it's mostly me in the kitchen. Right now, it definitely isn't. This also goes back to the idea of: I can nag all day long or I can figure out a new way of thinking that eliminates the stress of doing that all the time. </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it comes to keeping the kids' closets in order and clothes neatly stacked in drawers, my method is denial for the most part. <img alt=";) winking" src="http://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo3.gif" style="border: 0px;" /></span></li>
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<li>My almost 13 yo daughter still holds my hand when we're out together. </li>
<li>None of my kids have labels, although several would if they were out-schooled.</li>
<li>My kids are confident and secure. They are able to laugh at themselves.</li>
<li>If I don't get enough sleep, school starts later. Or it starts without me. </li>
<li>I really love going to the zoo/museum/vacation when no one else is there!</li>
<li>My kids' best friends are each other.</li>
<li>God is developing patience in me, as well as compassion and endurance.</li>
<li>I'm a better mom because of homeschooling. </li>
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Judah has been army crawling all over the place lately. So fun and now that we know the value of it, we put him on his tummy all the time. The kids are all impatient for him to start hands-and-knees crawling, but I'm in no hurry to get to the next milestone. It's all great!<br />
At 8 mos, Judah has 7 teeth. His teething has been fast and furious. He drools, he chews on everything, and the next day he has a new tooth. Easy peasy. Never had a kid grow teeth with such ease.<br />
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At six months, I started Judah on solids and he didn't go for it. We stopped for a month and then came back to it. Now he loves to eat.<br />
Guess what he's been eating lately.<br />
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Any guesses what we were doing last night?<br />
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Update: Our church's fellowship was at the roller rink this month. We decided to dress in 70s style just for the fun of it. We made quite a scene (which we all loved) since no one else did anything like this.<br />
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One big issue our older adoptees have is their difficulty communicating their needs or emotions. In Liberia, it wasn't safe to communicate needs or emotions or ask for help. So they learned not to. Unlearning that is a monumental task. </div>
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I've had to deal with my big fears of their future if they don't grow in this area. I've spent much time worrying how they will communicate with a spouse, should they marry. I've recently realized that their spouses will just have to learn what we have: how to communicate with someone who doesn't. It has been sanctifying for us and it will be sanctifying for their spouses.</div>
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When he wants something, he won't tell you, but he'll act like this and you need to ask what he wants.</div>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When he's sad, he won't tell you, but he'll act like this and you need to ask what he's sad about. Etc, etc. You get the idea.</span><br />
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In a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhyJpLIpRVA&feature=player_embedded" style="border: 0px; color: #315283; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">recent broadcast of <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 700 Club</em></a>, a woman sent in a question about a man who wouldn’t marry her because she has children who were adopted internationally. If they were her “own” biological children, he would have no problem, she said. But because they were adopted, he saw too much risk. </div>
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Pat Robertson said the man “didn’t want to take on a United Nations,” and that, after all, you never know about adopted children; they might have brain damage and “grow up weird.”</div>
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The issue here isn’t just that Robertson is, with cruel and callous language, dismissing the Christian mandate to care for the widows and orphans in their distress. The issue is that his disregard is part of a larger worldview. The prosperity and power gospel Robertson has preached fits perfectly well with the kind of counsel he’s giving in recent years. Give China a pass on their murderous policies; we’ve got business interests there. Divorce your weak wife; she can’t do anything for you anymore. Those adopted kids might have brain damage; they’re “weird.” What matters is health and wealth and power. <b>But that’s not the gospel of Jesus Christ. </b>
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Read the rest here: <a href="http://www.russellmoore.com/2012/08/17/pat-robertson-vs-the-spirit-of-adoption/" target="_blank">Pat Robertson vs. The Spirit of Adoption</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>What the author says about his statement lining up perfectly with the prosperity gospel is certainly true. If God only wants good things for us that make us happy, then adopting children who definitely will have issues isn't going to be on God's agenda. <b>If, however, God is more concerned with our holiness than our happiness, then He will be calling Christians all over the world to adopt these needy orphans and teaching these families what it really means to love unconditionally in the process.</b> (Which He most certainly is.) Adoption has sanctified me more than anything else has. </i></span>
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Today is your lucky day! You have the special thrill of learning something far too many people don't understand. I'm going to solve for you the maddening conundrum of then and than.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then </span>- This has to do with the order of events.<br />
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Now wasn't that easy? Easier <b>than </b>taking candy from a baby!<br />
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I never knew there was so much guilt in parenting! When I <a href="http://clarkchatter.blogspot.com/2009/01/grocery-shopping.html" target="_blank">run an errand</a> with one of my children and don't take the others who want to go, I feel guilty. When I realize we don't have time to squeeze in a trip to the ice cream shop, I feel guilty. I know I shouldn't, but I do.<br />
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Recently I've been struggling with feeling like whatever the problem is, it all comes back to it being my fault. If I get frustrated because my children don't pick up after themselves, that's my fault because I haven't trained them to be consistent in this. If a <a href="http://clarkchatter.blogspot.com/2012/04/adoption-is-ministry.html" target="_blank">certain non-talkative son</a> isn't communicating with me, there's always something I could do more of or less of to improve the situation. I convince myself it's my fault. If another certain child misunderstands my directions yet again, it's because I didn't have them repeat back what I asked them to do. Again back to me. It must be my fault.<br />
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This type of thinking is just plain <b>selfish</b>.<br />
It's <b>self-centered.</b><br />
It's not seeking God and praying for wisdom.<br />
It's <b>focusing on myself</b>. Pitying myself.<br />
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If you find yourself caught in the deception of "it's all my fault", turn to God. Seek God's Word for wisdom. There has never been a time that I prayed to God for wisdom, that He hasn't given me creative solutions to the problem before me. Never. He is faithful.<br />
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Get your eyes off yourself and focus on the One who can solve your parenting issues.<br />
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Note: I choose to use the word "homosexual" which correctly identifies those who have marital relations with the same gender. Gay means happy, which is a radically inappropriate word for a group of people who have such high depression and suicide rates. Homosexual "rights" gives the impression that they are somehow victims, thus the reason I omitted that word as well. "He who defines the terms controls the argument". Don't let the world tell you what words to use. You're smarter than that!Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657460163379486396noreply@blogger.com4