Family:

“Lucy, 2, to Jocelyn about her salad: I just want your lettuce; I don’t want your food. ”

“looking forward to a wonderful Shabbat. Matt is home, and I can’t wait to get to study Scriptures!! Yay! Have a SUPER day! Shabbat Shalom!”

“Watching Waterproof, Six year old just asked, “Why was he (10yo) in that cage?” No, Isaac, no cage; it was a public school ground… :/”

My birthday was Friday, and it was a great day!!
Matt took the day off and Shabbat too. He fixed bathroom stuff on Friday, so my tub (which we haven’t gotten to use yet) is now working, so I will get to use it *happy dance*.
He took some of our children to do some gift shopping and picked out ice cream.
It was wonderful. Love being home.

Scripture Finds this week:
We are (trying to remember to) reading the correlating Proverb each day. We read the Proverb, and I give each child a chance to speak out about what it means to them. Some are really stumpers, while some are pretty- self-explanatory. I hope I can get into the habit soon, because the Proverbs are really important words to live by, and we miss a lot by not applying its wisdom. When we are finished, each child blesses Yehovah for showing them a particular part of the Proverbs we read that touched them.

Here are some of the verses that stuck with us from our Scripture readings:

Proverbs 25:7-10 What your eyes have seen, don’t rush to present in a dispute. For what will you do later on, if your neighbor puts you to shame? Discuss your dispute with your neighbor, but don’t reveal another person’s secrets. If you do, and he hears of it, he will disgrace you, and your bad reputation will stick.

Proverbs 25: 16-17 If you find honey, eat only what you need; for if you eat too much of it, you may throw it up; so don’t visit your neighbor too much, or he may get his fill of you and come to hate you.

Proverbs 25: 27 It isn’t good to eat too much honey or to seek honor after honor.

Removing TORAH in Bibles makes me sad. What we miss!! James. 1:25 says: But if a person looks closely into the perfect Torah, which gives freedom, and continues, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work it requires, then he will be blessed in what he does. ”

James 1:26 “Anyone who thinks hes religiously observant but doesn’t control his tongue is deceiving himself; his observance counts for nothing.”

I also found this quote, and I stand to refute it:
“It’s all in the relationship with Christ, that our whole life even matters.”
NO. Jesus ALWAYS directed our attention and praise to the FATHER. Though he made the sacrifice and is the Messiah, he never took the glory and never allowed himself to become a god. He did not place our entire value in ourrelationship with him, but in our obedience and relationship to the Father. This is how we truly know Him. He always directs us to Yehovah and Torah.

Proverbs 16:28 “A deceitful person stirs up strife, and a slanderer can separate even close friends.“

I want to remind you that today is the last day to help the GTH families for August! Please give as liberally as you can to them! http://tinyurl.com/m3zd3g

Stay tuned for a Living Learning Moments Home School update coming soon!

We start next Tuesday. We will be using the Workboxes Home School Organization System and also Online State History Assignments 2009. I have posted some of the resources we will be using for different subjects. You can see them in this category: Living Learning Moments Home School 2009-10. Now, off to finish the school area, setup the workboxes and fill shelves and empty tables!

Oh my goodness.. I just scheduled this for tomorrow.. Sept. 1st. How did it get so late in the year? Can you believe it?

be blessed this week!

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All Scriptures taken from The Complete Jewish Bible

James 1:20
for a person’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness!

This is something that we would agree with, but do we apply it? Because, let me tell you – when I am angry, I have every right to be! Right? Isn’t that what movies and books and society and friends tell us? However, as usual, the Scriptures tell us something entirely different.

We are created to glorify the Father Yehovah God. Man’s anger does not accomplish his righteousness, nor does it glorify him or fulfill our purpose.

To fully understand the what, hows and wherefores, we will look at the verse in context:

James 1

17 Every good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father who made the heavenly lights; with him there is neither variation nor darkness caused by turning. 18 Having made his decision, he gave birth to us through a Word that can be relied upon, in order that we should be a kind of firstfruits of all that he created.

19 Therefore, my dear brothers, let every person be quick to listen but slow to speak, slow to get angry; 20 for a person’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness! 21 So rid yourselves of all vulgarity and obvious evil, and receive meekly the Word implanted in you that can save your lives. 22 Don’t deceive yourselves by only hearing what the Word says, but do it! 23 For whoever hears the Word but doesn’t do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror, 24 who looks at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But if a person looks closely into the perfect Torah, which gives freedom, and continues, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work it requires, then he will be blessed in what he does. 26 Anyone who thinks he is religiously observant but does not control his tongue is deceiving himself, and his observance counts for nothing. 27 The religious observance that God the Father considers pure and faultless is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being contaminated by the world.

This context tells us exactly what to do to not allow our anger to be expressed, which does not accomplish God’s righteousness.

What does not express his righteousness?

19 being a person who is quick to get angry

What does express his righteousness?

19 when we are quick to listen

19 when we are slow to speak;

20 when we rid ourselves of all vulgarity and obvious evil;

20 when we receive meekly the Word implanted in us;

22: Not only hearing what the Word says, but doing it!

How do we accomplish this?

25: looking closely into the perfect Torah, which gives freedom,

… continuing in the perfect Torah, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work it requires

26 controlling the tongue (not expressing OUR OPINIONS, but the Scriptures and their Truth!)

27 giving of ourselves by caring for orphans and widows in their distress

… to keep oneself from being contaminated by the world

These last two, are the religious observance that Yehovah considers pure and faultless.

Our nine year old daughter had an issue this morning with anger, and we discussed this. Her reaction in anger caused her brother to be hurt, and, though she didn’t mean it, it was the unholy result of her unrighteous anger. We talked about something I had read in The Excellent Wife, Chapter Eighteen, A Wife’s Anger:

“Righteous anger is a rare occurrence… most of the time, our anger is not righteous.”

She then goes on to give a litmus test of sorts to explain what might be considered righteous anger: “You can know your anger is righteous if in spite of perfection, you continue to think “true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, good repute, excellent, worthy of praise (to God)” thoughts (Philippians 4:8) In addition, you must also “not take into account a wrong suffered” and “not be provoked”. (1 Corinthians 13:5). Otherwise your anger is not honoring to God. It is sinful.”

As I said before, we tend to think our anger is justified, though, ironically, the other party’s rarely is. The truth, by the Scriptures, is that our anger is RARELY righteous. It is MOST OFTEN sinful. The actions that follow our anger, even if we are right in a situation, reflect our sinful and selfish flesh, not the glory of Yehovah.

May Yehovah God be glorified in our lives, our hearts and attitudes.

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All Scriptures taken from The Complete Jewish Bible, except for those from the Excellent Wife.

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