Because I am educator, I am aware of the principle that things ought to be learned step by step.A teacher, in principle, does not give more difficult skills without first teaching a child the simple skills. Letters are learned before sentences. Counting comes before adding. The physical world is taught before the atomic one. That's … Continue reading Life Lessons
Living For Now
“…learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart…” (Matthew 11:29) Have you ever committed a big blunder and were forgiven so graciously for it? We love to dream. For that new car. For that career breakthrough. For that prosperous business. For that ideal partner. But in our desire to get our “tomorrow”, … Continue reading Living For Now
Turn Toward the Problem
Much of our lives is spent trying to ignore problems, not wanting to deal with them, procrastinating. Bills are pushed to the side to deal with later. People we have troubles with are avoided. Work we don’t want to do is put off while we browse the Internet. The diet is put off until tomorrow … Continue reading Turn Toward the Problem
China!
I am here! I arrived some days ago and we are fixing our new apartment (Ikea and Walmart, thank you so much!) and getting the hang of being newly weds and married. It has been fun and exciting. Some weeks back, I promised to write why we have decided to live in China. It’s good … Continue reading China!
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