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Chalking
Creating Beautiful Bible Class Visuals with Artist Chalks Since chalking is one of my favorite things to do, I am sharing affiliate links below to items that you would need if you decide you too want to start chalking. What is Chalking? Sketched and Outlined You start with an image. Any image. You then, take that image and enlarge it. I do this by using a projector. You can either do that the old fashioned way, where you copy the image onto transparency film and then use the old style projector, or you can use a power point type projector. You project the image onto matte poster board, then trace the…
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Training Up: Look Them in the Eye
Teaching a Child the Importance of Eye Contact Training up a child is a full time, never ending job. Last week I went into a bank to discuss business banking for my co-op. At the end of my meeting the lady, Marilyn, shook my hand and then offered her hand to my son. He shook it but wasn’t focused. I took him by the chin, lifted his face to hers and told him, “Look her in the eye.” She then commented on how special that training was. She said, most young people today have no idea how to talk to an adult. And certainly not how to look them in the…
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Little Hands
A Mother’s View from the Feet of the Cross I sat in worship on Sunday and during the time of communion, which my beloved happened to be leading, I found myself holding my son’s little hands. He’s not so little anymore I noticed. He’s 8 1/2 and quite tall for his age. He has long fingers, slender. I noticed this on Sunday because over the course of his life I have quietly measured his growth by how his hand fits in mine. As I sat holding his hand and listening to my beloved reading from Luke 23 about the crucifixion of my Lord, my mind went to Mary His mother at…
