October 7. Saw the moon amongst the clouds before bed last night. This morning was quite cool — some blue sky and white puffy clouds, but a lot of thunderheads forming and very chilly winds blowing. Warmer and calmer winds this afternoon and warmer this evening. In science class, the students have started studying the unit on life. Five characteristics of life given in the chapter are responding to stimuli, taking in material from the environment, growth, reproduction, and death. I thought it made an interesting comparison to the church, a living organism, the body of Christ. Christ’s body, if alive, should respond to stimuli—preaching, singing, reading the word, praying, the working of the Holy Spirit; it should take in material from the environment—eating the word, drinking the water of the word, breathing oxygen – the Holy Spirit’s work of filling our lives; it should be growing and reproducing. When these characteristics are no longer seen in the church, the church dies. It no longer has life. I shared that comparison with the students to help them see that there are applications for the Christian life from true science. This afternoon, I wrote in my journal, wrote an e-mail to Pat K and sent it off and got e-mails in, finished writing tomorrow’s lesson plans, answered the door a couple times wrote up a quiz for the next lesson on Galatians, and started on the lesson to come after that. Took a bath right after supper. Then worked on sewing the sheet until Daddy called. Enjoyed the time chatting with my best friend. Then I got a snack, came back to the computer, and spent more time on the next Galatians lesson. “I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.” Psalm 119:162 October 8. A special day—Christy’s spiritual birthday. Thank you, Lord, for Christy. The moon was visible again before bed last night. Woke up around 5:45 to a blue-sky, fog-free morning. Sun was shining brightly and is far enough south now that it was shining into the back porch, and I was able to open the back door by 7:00. Around 4:30 this afternoon, the skies grew dark, and there was thunder off in the distance. Put phone on to charge before getting breakfast, and put computer on to charge after breakfast. School went well today, but I had a little mishap in the kitchen. The students were working on their math lesson so it was a good time to get some other things done. Needed to boil some eggs for sandwiches so put four eggs in a pan and set them on to boil. Then I started cleaning the freezer so it will be ready when Daddy brings home the groceries. When I finished, there were still five minutes left before the eggs would be done so I went to check on the students and see if anyone needed any help. To my surprise, three of them had already completed their lesson, and the fourth was done a couple minutes later. Okay, lots of time left to start on the new lesson. With that on my mind, I completely forgot about the eggs until about twenty minutes past their peak time. Oh, oh! Hurried to kitchen and quickly turned off the burner. All the water had boiled out, and four cracked, burnt eggs lay in the bottom of the pan. Oh, my, what shall I do now? I wasn’t about to throw out four eggs and waste them. So I peeled the worst looking two the best I could and ate them for snack. Mashed the other two later and made egg salad for supper. After school, Dallas and Mike chopped firewood. I had my nap, and then wrote a spiritual birthday wishes e-mail to Christy. Tried to send it; but, even though it kept saying “connecting,” it only completed the connection once, but not long enough to send the e—mail. While I was waiting for it to try to send, I finished grading the students’ math lessons and finished writing lesson plans for tomorrow. After shutting down the computer and putting it on to charge again, I cleaned the chalkboard and wrote some math exercises on the chalkboard for tomorrow. Then I cleaned the bathroom sink and toilet. By then, the computer was recharged so wrote in my journal, tried again to send the e-mail but no connection. Wrote in journal while I was waiting. Afterward, I made up the science quiz for unit 2-B. Put dish water on to heat while I was eating supper, and bath water on to heat while I was washing dishes. After bath, I had a little over a half hour to work on the computer before Daddy called. Worked on the next Galatians lesson. Then enjoyed about a half hour chat with Daddy. After we hung up, I put the computer back on the charger, had a snack, and finished stitching the first side piece that I had added to the brown bedsheet. Once the computer was recharged, I finished writing in my journal and then finished the last Galatians lesson on chapter one.
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