Wow. Do I need this. I am going to put this on my fridge because I need this bashed into my head every darned day.
Enjoy! Bash it into your head, too!
It is from our large Seattle Catholic homeschooling yahoo group. I've never seen it before!
Oh, and the picture is Christine and her baby, Anne-Marie, from May 2006, who is much bigger now, thank you! Christine often reminds me to be kind and gentle, because she's much better at it than I am. So a little pictorial reminder might be helpful to me.
Lenten Journey: 1 Corinthians 13 for Homeschool Moms
Posted by: "Ray & Ann Marie" rayann@olypen.com amsequim
Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:50 am (PDT)
Lenten Journey: 1 Corinthians 13 for Homeschool MomsThis Lenten journey, you are invited to...
Focus on loving our children.
You may join us in offering our sacrifices this week
for an increase of faith, hope and love among our children
and all children of the world.
Corinthians 13 for Homeschool Moms
Though I teach my children how to multiply, divide, and diagram a sentence,
but fail to show them love, I have taught them nothing.
And though I take them on numerous field trips, to basketball practice and
flute lessons; and though I involve them in every church activity but fail
to give them love, I profit nothing.
And though I scrub my house relentlessly, run countless errands, and serve
three nutritious meals every day but fail to be an example of love, I have
done nothing.
Love is patient with misspelled words and is kind to three-year-old
interrupters. Love does not envy the high SAT scores of other homeschool
families. Love does not claim to have better teaching methods than anyone
else, is not rude to the fourth telephone caller during a science lesson,
does not seek perfectly behaved geniuses, does not turn into a drill
sergeant, thinks no evil about friends' educational choices.
Love bears all my children's challenges, believes all my children are God's
precious gifts, hopes all my children establish permanent relationships
with Christ, and endures all things to demonstrate God's love.
Love never fails. Where there are college degrees, they will fail; where
there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we teach
in part. But when the trials of life come to our children, the history, math,
and science will be done away and faith, hope, and love will remain; but
the greatest of these is love.
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