Hey Girls!! I was just thinking about this weekend and how much fun we are going to have together! We are going to The Mad Potter on Sunday from 3m-5pm to paint ice cream bowls and eat pizza...I am so excited. There is nothing I love more than spending time with all of you, and doing something creative with you is even better! Be sure to bring your permission slips signed by parent/guardian (I will have some extra at The Mad Potter for parents to sign in case they forget), $15 in cash or check (made out to Liz Davenport) and your best painting skills! I know that each of you will make an amazing bowl. You get to keep the bowls you paint, but they won't be ready to take home for a week or so (they have to fire them in a kiln...I hope that we are going to get a short tour of the kiln), I will pick them up and bring them in to church when they are ready so you can take them home!
Last week we were still talking about how the Bible is our ultimate source of knowledge directly from God to us! The Bible is there for us to use when we don't know what to do; it shows us the wise choice to make. I know that it is hard sometimes to know what God wants from us everyday, we don't hear his voice like they use to in the Old Testament stories and Jesus isn't here on Earth anymore to tell us what to do. So how do we know what God wants us to do, say or be? We can read our Bible!! It is the way that God speaks to us...it tells us about His love for us, His expectations of us and His rewards when we do what we should. The Bible can show us what is the right choice to make in our lives today...even though it was written a long time ago. God intended it that way! He wanted to give us a book that would be just as important to us today as it was hundreds of years ago, and even hundereds of years from now in the future! God is so great!
Whenever I have a problem or a situation where I don't know what do, or I am afraid that if I try to solve a problem all by myself that I won't make the wise choice...I read my Bible! I have always been able to make the choice that God wants for me when I ask Him first!
Try this week to read the Table of Contents from your Bible with a grown up...when we know the books of the Bible and where they are located, we can more easily look up the verses we need. The books are sometimes hard to pronounce, so just do your best....when we read and learn God's Word we are storing it in our hearts!
Mrs. Beth and I are praying that you have a great week at school and home and that if you have a choice to make, that you read your Bible to know what God wants you to do!
HUGS!!!!!
Mrs. Liz
BIBLE VERSE: "Jesus became wiser and stronger. He also became more and more pleasing to God and to people." Luke 2:52 NIV
VIRTUE: Growing-the way Jesus grew.
