August 28. Rain last night, but a nice dry and sunny day today, except for a few sprinkles of rain this afternoon. It was a lovely day for hanging out the laundry. I helped Judy with the hanging as it was getting late and it was lotu morning. Gibson had charge of lotu this morning and did a pretty good job on the topic of loving one another, especially other believers. Then it was time for school — learning to multiply and divide compound metric measures. That took the whole class time. In English, they just finished the exercises for the chapter review, and tomorrow they will start studying for the test. The rest of the morning until about 12:30 was given to history, doing the study exercises and then map work. After dinner, Daddy and I brought the clothes in off the line and then had our nap. Then I finished up tomorrow’s lesson plans, cleaned the chalkboard, wrote some more math exercises on it, and worked on getting Matthew ready for printing until the computer battery ran low. Had plenty of time left before supper to sort and wash the greens that were brought to us today. After supper, I cut up the greens and set them on to cook. Then did the dishes. Worked on Matthew for a while. Had a bath and a snack. Worked a little more on Matthew. August 29. The Lord sent us lots of rain today, and it is quite chilly this evening. I was hoping for a good bath this evening, but it doesn’t look like it is going to happen. I’m thankful that there have been no fires for a couple days, and my eyes feel so much better. In math class this morning, I shared with the students what I had learned yesterday evening while working on the dictionary for the gospel of Matthew. While searching for meanings for talent and pence, I found some very interesting and thought-provoking information. In the second half of chapter 18, when the king comes to take account of his servants, a servant who owed 10,000 talents was brought to him. I was surprised to learn that a talent of silver weighed about 45 kilograms (or 100 pounds), and a talent of gold weighed 91 kilograms (or 200 pounds). That means that the servant owed 450,000 kg (or 1,000,000 pounds) of silver or 910,000 kg (or 2,000,000 pounds) of gold (whichever type he owed), a debt that was nearly impossible for him to pay. When he fell down before his lord and begged him to be patient, his lord forgave him that huge debt. But then that servant found a fellow-servant who owed him 100 pence. A pence, in contrast to the talent, weighed only 3.898 grams (or 0.1375 ounces). I rounded off the amount to 4g (or 0.14 oz.); but considering that, this servant owed the forgiven servant only 400 grams (or 14 ounces) of money. That is only 0.4 kilograms or less than one pound of money. And yet the forgiven servant refused to have mercy and compassion on the servant who owed him such a minute amount compared to what the forgiven servant owed the king. That servant owed the king 1,125,000 times as much as the other servant owed him. No wonder the king was wroth. And the comparison is that the King of kings has forgiven us such a great debt of sin, should we not forgive the sins of those who trespass against us? Their sins against us are so small in comparison to the debt that we owed to the King of kings, and that we could never pay, and that he so lovingly forgave because the debt has been paid for us through His Son. It was an interesting math lesson, but more than that a good lesson in forgiveness. Daniel came today and made a small stand for my wash tub so now sometimes I should be able to sit for my bath. This afternoon, after finishing up lesson plans, I looked for the music to “Grace Greater than Our Sin” and was thankful to have found it. The students have been learning to sing the song, but they want to learn the parts so I needed to find the music. Next week, we can start learning the parts. I also found the music to “My Wonderful Lord” which they have been wanting to learn. It is just a short chorus, but I couldn’t remember exactly how the music went. Got the “Grace” song all fixed up in a word file, and this evening, I copied it onto a flash drive so I can print it from Daddy’s computer. I was very glad that Daddy thought ahead this afternoon when it started raining hard, and he filled several buckets with clean water. The water coming through the pipes from the spring did get very dirty after that so I was thankful to have clean water set aside for washing dishes this evening. After washing dishes, I worked on journal notes and then more on the dictionary for Matthew.
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