Like many people in our area, this morning I awoke around 4am to rattling and shaking! NW IL had an aftershock from an earthquake! Of course this gave us excuse from the normal homeschool activities and reason to start lap packs and a unit study! Here are a few links we used if anyone is interested.
Earthquake confirmation and data reporting:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010snay.php
Free Lap pack printables on earthquakes:
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/earthquakes.php
Enchanted Learning printables on the earth's crust:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geology/label/outerlayers/answers.shtml
Kid's science video and info "Ruff Ruffman style":
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/CE_p023.shtml
Ring of Fire Volcanic strip:
http://geography.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=geography&cdn=education&tm=27&gps=125_46_1259_631&f=10&su=p897.6.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/map_plate_tectonics_world.html
We also did a keyword search and discussed many scriptures on earthquakes in the Bible. ( www.biblegateway.com )
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Birth of a Baby Elephant...
Last week I was listening on Moody to a sermon in which the pastor was preaching about how it seems sometimes to Christians, (especially new Christians), that everything hits them at once. He was talking about how it feels sometimes like you are getting hit from every side and just as you try to get up you get knocked down again. He gave the analogy of a baby giraffe being born. He described it somewhat like this:
When a baby giraffe is born it falls from the mother 10 ft. to the ground...BAM! Then the mother goes over to the baby on the ground and kicks it....BAM...and it begins to wake up. In a few moments it takes it's first few breaths and then...BAM...the mother kicks it again! In the first 5 minutes it starts to stand up and if it is wobbly the mother goes over and again kicks it....BAM! The mother knows that the baby has to get up and start walking in the first 15 minutes if it is going to be able to survive. The mother knows that there are lions on the way to devour the newly born calf.
Likewise our Heavenly Father knows that there is a lion, the devil, on the prowl. He is seeking new Christians, old Christians, weak Christians, and pre-Christians, just waiting to attack and rip them apart. So God, lovingly, kicks you...BAM! "Get up!" He says, "Get moving" He says! "I am trying to equip you...BAM, protect you...BAM, and strengthen you or you will not survive!"
I had been having a rough week when I heard this message, so did a friend of mine and I called her and told her the story I just heard. I felt it had ministered to me some profound things I needed to hear. When I got home I tried to find a birth of a giraffe online that matched the description I had heard on the radio for us. I couldn't find one and chalked it up to poetic license of the Pastor. "He must have exaggerated it," I rationalized. "He made up a great analogy from nature, but must have stretched it a bit," I thought. Then last night I opened an email from my mother-in-law of a birth of a baby elephant. I couldn't believe my eyes...it matched the analogy from the radio perfectly.
God wakes us up...BAM! He protects us with His body and firmly nudges us to get up...get going..."Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." (1 Peter 5:8)
When a baby giraffe is born it falls from the mother 10 ft. to the ground...BAM! Then the mother goes over to the baby on the ground and kicks it....BAM...and it begins to wake up. In a few moments it takes it's first few breaths and then...BAM...the mother kicks it again! In the first 5 minutes it starts to stand up and if it is wobbly the mother goes over and again kicks it....BAM! The mother knows that the baby has to get up and start walking in the first 15 minutes if it is going to be able to survive. The mother knows that there are lions on the way to devour the newly born calf.
Likewise our Heavenly Father knows that there is a lion, the devil, on the prowl. He is seeking new Christians, old Christians, weak Christians, and pre-Christians, just waiting to attack and rip them apart. So God, lovingly, kicks you...BAM! "Get up!" He says, "Get moving" He says! "I am trying to equip you...BAM, protect you...BAM, and strengthen you or you will not survive!"
I had been having a rough week when I heard this message, so did a friend of mine and I called her and told her the story I just heard. I felt it had ministered to me some profound things I needed to hear. When I got home I tried to find a birth of a giraffe online that matched the description I had heard on the radio for us. I couldn't find one and chalked it up to poetic license of the Pastor. "He must have exaggerated it," I rationalized. "He made up a great analogy from nature, but must have stretched it a bit," I thought. Then last night I opened an email from my mother-in-law of a birth of a baby elephant. I couldn't believe my eyes...it matched the analogy from the radio perfectly.
God wakes us up...BAM! He protects us with His body and firmly nudges us to get up...get going..."Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." (1 Peter 5:8)
here is the Elephant birth video....I will say it is quite graphic and if you are sensitive or have small children in the room please use caution!!!
and the next time you feel pushed, shoved, or knocked down, remember it could be God's voice saying, "My child get up and get going...I want you to get a head start so you will make it!"
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