Like Uncle Wes this boy loves a good sweater vest!
And is oh so forlorn without one. Why even get dressed?
For Uncle Wes
October 26th, 2010 by Aubri
Learning Basket
October 25th, 2010 by Aubri
This week: Church Life
Because Sunday is Reformation Day I decided that this week we would focus on what we see, do and hear in church.
Praying
Our Bible and Hymnals
The Crucifix
The Baptismal font and Baptism
Holy Communion
Activities:
Maybe take a tour of our church and let Lily see the altar more closely than she does on Sunday morning
Color pictures of things we see and do in church
Look at pictures from the children’s baptisms
Songs:
Favorite hymns
Songs from “Growing in Christ” hymns for children
This is the Way We….go to church, etc.
The Bible is God’s Word
Golden and Noble Works
October 21st, 2010 by Aubri
“A wife too should regard her duties in the same light, as she suckles the child, rocks and bathes it, and cares for it in other ways; and as she busies herself with other duties and renders help and obedience to her husband. These are truly golden and noble works. This is also how to comfort and encourage a woman in the pangs of childbirth, not by repeating St Margaret legends and other silly old wives’ tales but by speaking thus, “Dear Grete, remember that you are a woman, and that this work of God in you is pleasing to him. Trust joyfully in his will, and let him have his way with you. Work with all your might to bring forth the child. Should it mean your death, then depart happily, for you will die in a noble deed and in subservience to God. If you were not a woman you should now wish to be one for the sake of this very work alone, that you might thus gloriously suffer and even die in the performance of God’s work and will. For here you have the word of God, who so created you and implanted within you this extremity.” Tell me, is not this indeed (as Solomon says [Prov. 18:22]) “to obtain favour from the Lord,” even in the midst of such extremity?
Now you tell me, when a father goes ahead and washes diapers or performs some other mean task for his child, and someone ridicules him as an effeminate fool, though that father is acting in the spirit just described and in Christian faith, my dear fellow you tell me, which of the two is most keenly ridiculing the other? God, with all his angels and creatures, is smiling, not because that father is washing diapers, but because he is doing so in Christian faith. Those who sneer at him and see only the task but not the faith are ridiculing God with all his creatures, as the biggest fool on earth. Indeed, they are only ridiculing themselves; with all their cleverness they are nothing but devil’s fools.”
-Martin Luther from The Estate of Marriage 1522
