Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ musings

“Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:7

In these rapidly changing times, we must remember, “There is nothing new under the sun.” All man’s advancements still leave him in the same place.

As technology advances we have more opportunity than ever to reach more people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to use the medium to transmit, not new information, but never changing Truth!

God’s Word never changes, never needs added too, is always constant and always sufficient – in every age, at every time, in every place – for that universal need of everyone.

Take a look at this short video at Steve Camp’s blog.

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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Posts have been unusually long in coming here lately. Why? 2 answers:

• Blogging is happening at my ‘from me’ blog. As we expand our health and nutrition studies, my mind is on food, so blogs are making it over there. 2 series are currently going. Friday Food has been resurrected – where I give you a Good for You-Naturally! recipe each week. And, Today’s Menu – where I post a Real Life Good for You-Naturally! Menu Plan from our home.
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• In addition to all the other things overfilling my plate, we are preparing to attend a Reformation Faire for our vacation this month.

We’ve been trying to push through to a good resting place in our studies. We just finished the book of John – and are now finishing our Journals, are moving slowly in HisStory in 20th century – finishing WWI, are exapanding our health and nutrition studies – along with food preparation, working on the character quality of Availability – learning about the UNavailable cowbird.

We thought we would have proper attire for the Faire for all but our 2 oldest boys, but found we need to make outfits for our 2 girls also. AND I’m still not sure I’m wanting to wear my Reformation period wedding dress to an outdoor event – so perhaps new attire for me is in order too. AND we are down to 2 weeks before we go. Gotta get those machines a humming.

So –until next time…

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Had to add another resource I found today, an Independence Day picture with quotes. It’s from Hobby Lobby, and you can download a free pdf of it and print it out.

Please read my other, full post, today too.

It’s been two weeks ago now, but those weeks were filled with dd’s wedding and my L.E.D. Seminar. So finally getting around to say, we had a great time at the Colorado Home Educators’ Conference. Our favorite speaker (which we knew would be before we went) was Voddie Baucham. I highly recommend ordering his sessions from this conference, especially "Government Education", and/or his book, Family Driven Faith or DVD, Children of Caesar. Also here’s the most extensive listing I know of for his online resources.

Other sessions I attended and enjoyed were by Doug Phillips and Kevin Swanson on family entrepeneuership.

I also, only becuase bored and tired of walking around, stopped into a math workshop. The speaker was speaking on how math resources need to teach concepts. He mentioned programs he thinks are good, which was the same list as current programs on my website.

We shopped a bit, getting some great family resources. I haven’t even begun to think of what our studies for the next sveral months will be, so don’t know if I was shopping for "school" or not. Just for life!

Anyhow, it was a great all around conference, though I misssed a few of the vendor’s we normally buy from that weren’t there this year, notably Children’s Books, from whom I usually make a sizable purchase. We took only our teens this year, so they could go to all the sessions. That was nice that we didn’t have the running back and forth and having to miss sessions, but we sure missed our little ones, and were glad to get home.

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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Our God is GREAT! Do you know that?

I shared a couple days ago how God is bringing some renewing in my thoughts. (Don’t ever think that if something is "out there" presented in the public that it is absolutely complete, all there is, presented in perfection. That isn’t true of my teachings, NOR of anyone else’s – whether they let on to that or not. NO ONE has arrived. NO ONE has achieved the Wisdom of God! We are all growing and changing each and every day. OR we are already dead!)

OK, back on track. I am just SUPER EXCITED about the greater depth of understanding God is bringing to Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™! in ME, the founder of it! – still learning after all these years. I am hoping to be able to convey some of this at the Ultimate Homeschool Expo next week. And will for sure be adding it into Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~ The Seminar LIVE! 2008, in June.

One area is the teaching on the "Universal Principles" I give, that I knew there were more connections to be made, but wasn’t exactly sure HOW those connections were to be made. God has opened my eyes to see this even clearer – hopefully bringing even more Freedom & Simplicity™! I’m really hoping that He’ll open it up for me to share it with you next week. Please pray for me as I finalize what parts of the L.E.D. message I’ll share at the UHSE, that it would be just the things those that attend need to hear.

He’s also been clearing a few other paths.

Just had to let you know, there’s more exciting new things to come in Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™!

Yours for Freedom & Simplicity™
in Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~

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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Need a math mind bender for you children today?

This one is written as determining your age by "how many times you want to go out to eat per week," but you could substitute any other "event" that would be more than 1 and less than 10. And actually it works with 0 or 1 also, but it is more apparent how the calculations are working, therefore losing some of the "awe" factor – but your children may not catch on to that. Also, it won’t work if you are over 100.

You could do it by telling your children you will be able to tell them their "secret number". Have them choose a secret number 2-9 (or 0-9) then follow your directions and do the calculations (without letting you see) and then read the answer to you. You will know the last 2 digits are their age, and first (in the hundreds place) is their "secret number". If doing it with someone whose age you don’t know, you could not only tell them their "secret number" but also their age. (If they are less than 10 years old, their age will have a ’0′ in the tens place, i.e. 3 years old=03. But I doubt that they can do the calculations, even if they are home educated. )

This formula only works this year – 2008.

"Is it possible to calculate your age by how often you enjoy eating out? Get ready for a mathematical mind-bender– and don’t cheat by scrolling down first!

"This takes less than a minute. Work it out as you read, either in your head or on a piece of paper. But be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out!

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat (more than once but less than 10 times)
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
3. Add 5
4. Multiply it by 50
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1758 … If you haven’t, add 1757.
6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should now have a three digit number. The first digit of this was your original number, (i.e., how many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week).

The next two numbers are:

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!)

This is the only year (2008) the calculation will ever work, so you have less than nine months to spread this around.

from Mercola.com

There is evidently a glitch in our newsletter sending. When I went to send this month’s newsletter last night, I noticed that last month’s had not been sent to everyone. I am working on it, and hoping everyone will get one and only one of each newsletter. If you did not receive one of the newsletters, you can send a blank email to either of these auto responders to get whichever issue you missed – or both. If your email program has trouble with the html (your e-newsletter comes "messed up" looking) you can email me directly for a text version, using the "email us" link on the Resource page.

feb08@frommeandmyhouse.com

jan08@frommeandmyhouse.com

I’m sorry for the trouble.

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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Jennifer tagged me for this. And I’d already been tagged by Tracy at my ‘from me’ blog, so you can read 7 other random things there.

7 Random or Weird Things About Me and 7 People are Tagged (at the end)

1. I love to go barefoot. Rarely will you find me in shoes, except at church (until I get there anyhow) or in the store, and when it is winter and I have my sheepskin slippers on.

2. I love shoes. My father in law ran a shoe store for over 40 years. At one time I had over 80 pairs of shoes. (No they never wore out. Also, this genetic trait has been passed on to most of my dd’s.)

3. I love to be pregnant. I never had morning sickness, just a little queasiness a couple times, mainly when I smelled meat.

4. I love quiet time. I could easily spend a week or two (or month or two?)  just reading and writing and never seeing another soul. (But I would miss my family tremendously. I love them. But I love quiet too.) When we had only girls (5 of them) our house was very quiet. People couldn’t believe there was a houseful of children here.

5. I’d love to have a personal secretary. I don’t need or want a nanny or teacher. A maid would be nice. But I really need someone who can do all my (electronic) paperwork and dictation for me. Anyone have a daughter that’d want to come. I can only afford to pay food.

6. I love keeping busy. If I live to be 120 I still won’t have all the projects I already have planned out completed. Anyone that’s bored care to come work on some of those?

7. I love exercising my mind but, much of a health nut as I am, hate exercising the body. (It is only of "little value" anyhow, you know.) A nice walk daily would be great, but who has time.

Here are the rules:

* 1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
* 2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
* 3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
* 4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Tagged are:

My brain has been way too overtaxed for the last few weeks, so would 7 of you readers please just tag yourself and leave a comment below and a link to your post so others can read and meet you.  

I’ve been self-tagged by Mandi @ Under His Construction. Here’s the rules for this book tag:

1. Pick up the nearest book of at least 123 pages.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the 5th sentence.

4. Post the next 3 sentences.

5. Tag 5 people.

1. I figured the Bible was too obvious, so I grabbed the next closest book.

2. which was Valley of Vision, which had more than 123 pages.

3. However, it did not have 5 sentences on page 123, as that was the end of a “chapter”/prayer.

4. Here’s the “next 3 sentences” from the NEXT closest book, Morning and Evening by Charles H. Spurgeon.

Believer, have you not found in the midst of plenty a sore famine if your Lord has been absent? The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden Himself, and all the world was black to you; or it was night, and since the bright and morning star was gone, no other star could yield you so much as a ray of light. What a howling wilderness is this world without our Lord!

5. I’ve tagged more than 5 (more than double) since I’m not sure how many will participate. Please play along I’d like to know what you are reading. And please comment back here after you’ve posted your tag, so I know. I have more friends I’d like to hear this from, but I’m not sure if you’re blogging anymore, since you haven’t had posts in a long time. You know who you are. Yep, you!

Tagged are:

MamaArcher

Principled Mom

Principled Discovery

Living Life Between the Trees

Seeking Rest in the Ancient Paths

Shepherd’s Fold

On Wisdom’s Path

Principled Reformer

Life Nurturing Education

Let a Woman Learn

Sharing the Journey