Almost Unschooling Grama

Do your kids make up board games?   Yesterday, the kids both decided to create their own board games.  Mighty Red decided he wanted to make a game in which we drew a card and then copied what he had written on them to our place on the board. We didn't spend a lot of money and it was pretty simple, but he put a lot of thought into the design and rules. There were lots of fine motor and cutting skills involved as well! Princess Brilliance saw what her brother was doing and wanted in on the action too. She decided on a math game where we had to add what was on the cards to find out how many spaces we would move. I lost both games. Wonder if they were rigged? LOL!

  You’ve been there many times. You are in church, about to take communion and the leader instructs you to examine yourself to see if you have any sin that you need to repent of so you don’t take the LORD’s supper unworthily. It sounds good and right, but what if that’s not what taking the LORD’s supper unworthily is about?   What have been some of your thoughts or feelings when this request is made? I will be honest. As a practicing Christian, I try to repent of sins just as soon as I am aware of them. This is what I believe the Bible says I am to do. Waiting until communion time is not. That instruction to examine myself for sin usually winds up with my mind going in one of two directions: I must be missing it somehow if I can’t find any specific sins to repent of, or I feel pity and maybe even a little sense of pride because I have already repented and that sobbing woman two rows behind me is obviously really convicted.  Neither reaction has anything to do with the s...