Peace is - starting a new school year

I am sitting at my scrapbook store today planning school. I should have done it last week, but I was used car shopping. There is something re-newing about the beginning of a school year. Maybe it is all my years teaching school that stirs anticipation. Maybe it is just the comfort of scheduled days and nights and the determination to stick to that schedule so we can get through (summer is way more sporatic). No matter, as I sit and ponder and think through where I must begin and where I want to end I usually come upon some wonderful ideas via all the great resources on the web.

Today it is blog reading for me. Here are some great and comforting quotes and scriptures that I came across today.

From a blog I found called "His Grace to Me" she uses the tagline: "...and His grace to me was not without effect." ~ ICor. 15:10. The thought was worth pondering, but not recalling this phrase I went to my King James Version to check the actual scripture that I would use for that reference. It is this:

1 Cor 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

From a blog called "A Lady in Training" the tagline: Learning to be led by the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23)... From the KJV Gal 5: 22 But the afruit of the bSpirit is clove, djoy, epeace, flongsuffering, ggentleness, goodness, hfaith,
23 aMeekness, btemperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the aaffections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

I love verse 25.

From a blog about promoting beautiful womanhood is a section about teaching children well: Teach Your Children Well
Rearing Lords and Ladies
We are "ruled-rulers," as T. David Gordon termed it; we must act the part or disgrace the One who made us in His image. As we learn to be like Him, we are responsible to teach our children to do the same.


Yes, it is in my peaceable walk that I find joy in teaching my children to walk uprightly before the Lord. To love and honor what is good and noble and to shun the world and all the perversions that are around us. We must fight for our families and for the preservation of our right as parents to instill in them what we hold to be sacred and true.