Each weekday morning the children in our Pre-K 3 class line up outside our classroom door and I lead them in this song. You may be familiar with the words. If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands (clap, clap) If you’re happy and you know it, clap…
Read more“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven……. A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace.” Ecclesiastes 3:1,8 (NLT) “Remind the believers to submit to the government and its officers. They should be obedient,…
Read moreWe recently sang the hymn “Nailed to the Cross” one Sunday morning. The third verse really stood out to me. I will cling to my Savior and never depart, I will joyfully journey each day, With a song on my lips and a song in my heart, That my sins…
Read more“Tell your children about it in the years to come, and let your children tell their children. Pass the story down from generation to generation.” Joel 1:3 37 years ago I left Pennsylvania, my “home”, with my hubby and baby daughter for what would become a 33 year absence from…
Read more“Sabbatical or a sabbatical (from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos, from Hebrew shabbat, i.e., Sabbath, literally a “ceasing”) is a rest from work, or a break, often lasting from two months to a year. The concept of sabbatical has a source in shmita, described several places in the Bible (Leviticus…
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