Give Thanks to the Lord~Ps 136

Pastor Jason encouraged us this morning to personalize our story in light of Psalm 136.  Here you go!

Give Thanks to the Lord, for He is good.

His love endures forever.

Give Thanks to the God of gods

His love endures forever.

Give Thanks to the Lord of lords

His love endures forever.

He brought me forth unplanned yet planned

His love endures forever.

He set me in a family turning to Himself

His love endures forever.

He called me in the living room to follow Him

His love endures forever.

He gave my Father care and foresight for my soul

His love endures forever.

He put me in a youth group with a zealous pastor

His love endures forever.

He fell gently completely wooing my 12 year old soul

His love endures forever

He showed me His incomparable beauty

His love endures forever

Shielded by His love, he covered, protected, and preserved me

His love endures forever

Launched to the nations, he sent me

His love endures forever

Compelled by their suffering, he drew me

His love endures forever

His vision imparted to me

His love endures forever.

Clinging to Him, he united me

His love endures forever

A Christian husband he gave me

His love endures forever

With children he blessed me

His love endures forever

His heart bleeds before me

His love endures forever

His call in me

His love endures forever

Trials swirled around me

His love endures forever

Twice near death, he saved me

His love endures forever

His pressure squeezed me

His love endures forever

Fruit he brought forth through me

His love endures forever.

Unplanned yet Planned

My Creator's everyday Glory & Beauty given to me

Neighbor I love wee Cece, our foster child.   Family is serving her as she recovers from drug induced trama from her birth mom.

 

my shoots Field Trip to Indiana with friends to hike and observe the birds

Neighbors I love

Can Language Arts really be SOOOOO different in a Christian school than in the public school? Check out what a fourth grader could be reading..

"Where the Sidewalk Ends" is extremely popular for the upper primary grades.  Here's an awesome Christian alternative.  I've been reading with the kids, "When the Aardvark Parked on the Ark."  An evangelical pastor with a gift for words wrote this poetry book. I was happy to find a modern poet whose writing brings home spiritual and moral themes.  Many modern poets project liberal morals and an anti-God theme.  And yes, the absence of God is anti-God.  Calvin Miller is hilarious.  Not all his poems are on a religious theme, but some are.   Here's a funny one: "Daniel's Prayer." The poetry is geared toward primary grades and jr. high. ;')


Oh, God
I promise to obey your law

If all these kitties get lockjaw.
Please God, I'm frankly scared to death!
Don't let these cats get prophet's breath.
Amen.

Alternatively, there are the predatorial propaganda book lists like what you find among the Chicago Public Schools recommendations for your children:

Love, Jessica. Julián Is a Mermaid. Candlewick Press, 2018.

--A story of love, acceptance and a celebration of individuality as a young boy's Abuela embraces the fact that he wants to dress as a beautiful mermaid.

 Blake, Ashley Herring. Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World. Little, Brown and Company, 2018.

--Ivy is an artist, and a seventh grade girl, whose house is destroyed in a tornado. She survives a first crush on a girl, and realizes how much she is loved by her family and friends.

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

--Grayson Sender has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: "he" is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong gender's body. The weight of this secret is crushing, but sharing it would mean facing ridicule, scorn, rejection, or worse. Despite the risks, Grayson's true self itches to break free. Will new strength from an unexpected friendship and a caring teacher's wisdom be enough to help Grayson step into the spotlight she was born to inhabit?

It Wasn't Me  by Dana Alison Levy

--When Massachusetts seventh-grader Theo’s self-portraits are vandalized with gay slurs in the student gallery, and someone destroys his long-exposure pinhole cameras shortly afterward, it seems that someone is out to get him.

Here's a Christian highschool literature reading list: Abi's 9th grade reading list.
Public school Highschool Literature controversy sparked this