May 15. Early to rise and get things ready for Judy to do laundry. Daddy turned the generator on at 6:00, and Judy arrived a few minutes later. It turned out to be a very hot day today—in the 80’s inside and maybe around 90º outside. It was almost too hot to sleep at nap time. Good weather for a storm. Late afternoon, the skies grew dark, and we could hear thunder off in the distance and see heavy rain on the other side of the mountain ridges. But the rain never came here I didn’t notice what time lotu started, but Matthew preached this morning on “knowing the ways of the heathen” from Ephesians 2:11,12. Most of school time today was independent work so I had time to do more praying and to work at the computer so started a lesson on “preaching.” The students had a math lesson to finish up. Anna Jean was done somewhat early so I had her cut up a couple sheets of memory verses for the Sunday school class while she was waiting for the others. The two men didn’t finish until after school. They had a short quiz in English, and then we started a lesson on principal parts of regular verbs. The second half of the class, they worked on the written exercises. Then they had written exercises to do for science as well. Matthew came this morning and started working on the bathroom, putting up plywood behind the toilet (where there was no inside wall) so we can try to block off all avenues where the rats get in behind the pitpit * wall. He still has a bit left to finish. He was still working when I went for nap, and Daddy came for nap after Matthew left, about a half hour later. *Pitpit – a reed, can be used somewhat like bamboo but is smaller Anna Jean stayed after school and prepared some greens and onions which I cooked this evening after washing out the small pressure cooker. I did not want to use the big pressure cooker for a small amount of food. Most of my computer time this evening was spent working on a supplementary lesson for English. The book is not clear enough or thorough enough on how to use the present form of verbs. It just has one lesson on regular principal parts and then goes right on to irregular parts. I would like the students to get a good grasp of the regular principal parts first and how to use them. Took a break to get a snack and then later to have a bath. Then I came back and printed the supplementary lesson and also photocopied a worksheet on regular principal parts. Praise the Lord for another e-mail going out today! “1Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.” Ephesians 5:1,2 We are dear children of God. Oh, how wonderful! Therefore we are to follow, be imitators of, Him. One way in which to imitate him is to walk in love, just like Christ loved us. And how much did He love us? He gave himself as an offering in our place. He gave Himself as a sacrifice to God, a sweetsmelling fragrance. We also should be willing to give ourselves as an offering, acceptable to God, to help someone else and to show God’s love to them. May 16. We are so thankful for Matthew’s coming this morning to finish the work in the bathroom. He came about the middle of Bible class (our first class) and didn’t finish until around 1:15. He and Daddy said they enjoyed hearing the students sing during music class. The students were really enjoying their math class today as we learned some new ways to do multiplication. They all let out a groan of disappointment when I said that class time was over. Our English lesson was one that I made up for teaching them the uses of the present form of the principal parts of verbs. There was nothing in their textbook to teach that, and the text just jumped right into irregular principal parts after just one lesson on regular principal parts. In science class, we reviewed unit 1-D; the students had a short quiz; and then they read unit 1-E before going home. Since it was late when Matthew and Daddy finished the work in the bathroom, and dinner was also late, it was 2:00 before we lay down for nap. The house was very hot when we lay down, but a cool wind and clouds soon came up and cooled things down quite a bit. This afternoon, I finished erasing the chalkboard (had started it this morning while Daddy and Matthew were still working). Then I cut up some watermelon for Daddy and me for snack. Afterwards, I was sitting and working on lesson plans in the schoolroom when someone came to the door with cucumbers. Daddy answered the door and then brought the cucumbers in for me to look at. I didn’t hear his first sentence, but heard him say that it was near my chair leg and looked like it was dying. I thought it was a cockroach or some little creature and looked around to the side that was facing Daddy but didn’t see anything. Then he said, it is right by your foot on the other side of the chair. So I turned at looked beside my left foot. Yikes! A rat! I got up from the chair softly so it wouldn’t run away, but it didn’t look like it had enough life left to go anywhere. Daddy brought a piece of firewood and put the creature out of its misery. Then he picked it up in a plastic bag, cleaned up the blood that it left behind, and took it out to the garbage hole. I went back and finished up tomorrow’s lesson plans. Had just a few minutes at the computer before getting supper on the table. “1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 3I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.” Psalm 18:1,2,3 David purposed in His heart that He would love the LORD. The LORD was everything to David—his strength, his rock, his fortress, his deliverer, his God, his buckler (a shield of protection), the horn (a symbol of power) of his salvation, his high tower (a lofty place of refuge). David purposed to call on the LORD because the LORD is worthy to be praised. The LORD is all this for me as well and I want to love Him and praise Him, for HE is worthy.
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