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I like tables

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I love what a member of my family .. who very specifically said “Don’t tell anyone I told you this” gave me when I said “the five minute Friday word is Table.  What I am going to do for Table? ”  Suddenly these words came falling out of his mouth and I wrote them down.  Enjoy the quirkiness. 🙂  A first, rambling poem.  I Like Tables. 

I like tables (text) with blue background with table

I Like Tables

I like tables
I store my tables on top of tables
and my table stores tables on top of other tables
and I sleep on tables
and I sit on tables
and I don’t even have furniture just tables.
If you think about it
Houses are just giant tables gathered together to make giant boxes
I live in a table.
I eat my table shaped food off of minatures tables
My cutlery is tables.
The sharp edge functioning as a knife
The legs as forks.

End Thoughts

I love it!  What I love even more is how quickly it came spilling off his tongue and his willingness to repeat it so I could actually write it all down.  Not telling which marvellous member of my family helped me out, but the knowledgeable will probably guess.   If you comment, and it’s nice, I’ll let him know.  🙂

Oh and before I forget.  JOIN us!  It’s Five minute Friday time.  Miss Kate awaits your wonderful posts!

In Times Before

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In times before
The end of the world.
People stood in wonder.

Never before had they seen such a thing.
People rising into the air.
The dead being gathered up.

A booming voice
like one of thunder.
Not a quite rapturous event.

And suddenly people
All around were surprised
And in awe.

That hidden aspect of God
Contained within all
That they had so zealously surpressed.

They knew
Without a shadow of a doubt.
It was all true.

God did exist.
Here he was coming down.
In the air. Calling his own to him.

And those left standing
Had no answer.
They knew he was Lord.

This once in a world’s time event.
The end of it all
Was something never seen before.

In times before…..

Never Seen Before

Scripture Speaks

So I wrote this in somewhat less than three minutes.  It just kinda popped out of me as soon as I saw Kate’s word prompt.   I hope you like it!  If you don’t, please be kind anyways!  🙂 Just maybe you might decide to join in on the fun!

13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

1 Thess 4:13-18

The Stretching He Causes

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I would chat a while here, but tonight I’m highly tired. My right eye is doing it’s weird twitching thing it does when I’m over-tired, so off to bed early I am.   Join us won’t you?  Miss Kate has provided us with a word prompt again. This week it’s the word risk.  

The Stretching he causes

Tonight I paused
Catching my words
Wanting, as I talked with a lad
To say things as I should.

Tiredness weighs deeply on my shoulders
Foggy thinking clouds my judgment
So taking time is a needful thing.

My lad reading
Asking questions.
Seeing things that
I wouldn’t see.
Asking questions I don’t
Know the answers too, but
Trying and stumbling to help him see.
The author isn’t wrong, but
He hasn’t covered all the possibilities.

A teenage boy
Learning to put his thoughts together.
Asking and challenging.
Covering all possibilities as best he can.
Wondering why others don’t do the same.

Helps me understand the risk I take
When I engage with others who
Want me to cover every possibility
in a short answer.
Helping me see why some take offense
Simply because I didn’t take the time to
consider all thoughts before I answered.
When all I thought I was answering
What a simple question, requiring a simple answer.

But hidden within the simplicity
Some see complexity.
And if you don’t meet the complexity
Challenges and frustrations arise.

I wonder if this 14-year-old sees
the stretching he causes
in a mom 40 years past his scene.

Experience Tells

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Recently we just finished the Canadian Online Homeschooling Conference.  Experienced homeschoolers spreading their knowledge to those coming up new.  Reminding of schedules, the ability to do it, and how to curricula pick. This experience of others, the need to be one who tells.

And recently at bible study, this experience again shows.  The stories of others who’ve gone on before. Listen, experience tells.  Showing up God’s grace in ways unexpected.  It’s a marvellous thing, this spreading of knowledge. 

I hope you will join us as we gather around Miss Kate’s Five minute Friday word prompt. 

Experience Tells

Experience Tells

Experience Tells
Older mom to younger
Don’t mind that mixed up speech
Younglin’s sometimes time will take
Their speech to straighten out.
If help is needful you will know
The patterns they will stay.
But mixing consonants will happen.
Don’t worry now this day.

Experience Tells
Homeschooler 9 years says
To brand new one venturing
On a journey to unknown lands.
Do not buy every shiney thing
That shows up on your door.
Learn your children well is first
Curriculum is second.

Experience Tells
A mom in shock soon learns.
Ask a parent more experienced.
If teen behaviour normal is.
How preteen hormones rage.
As defiance rears a head.
What to do, how to say,
Experience lends a hand.

Experience tells
How grace received is given.
Patience as you rear a Child
Reflects the Lord’s long-suffering.
Take your time.
Offer hugs, and even more grace beside.
Let the Holy Spirit
Always be your guide.

But use experience.
Lean on those gone on before.
Because Experience Tells
And acts as guide.
To more than just ourselves.
In turn your experience
A guide you soon will be.
Giving out to others
As was oft given out to thee.

experience tells

Recently in the homeschool review crew I was offered a chance to mentor others into the SchoolhouseTeachers.com website. A chance to share my experiences to benefit others.  It’s great to share knowledge don’t you think?  Even one homeschool mom helping another navigate sticky sciences experiments.  I love it!  🙂

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In Life or In Death

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Oh, this word, it struck a chord in me today.  So this poem came out it seemed in three minutes flat!  🙂   Miss Kate picked a good one this week.  🙂  Here’s my poem In Life or In Death.

In Life or in Death

In Life or In Death

I wonder what it is
When I see the word prompt life
I start to see the opposite.
The death that resides within.

Lately I have been listening.
To the tale of Philippians.
The joy that Paul found in life
In belief of Christ within.

One thing Paul tells us
In his book Philippians fare
Is contentnent lies with
Our faith in Christ up there.

He goes on to show that
Whether rich or poor we find
Contentment it is learned
It’s our faith he has in mind.

This theme does continue
When it comes to life or death.
Is it better to live?
Or better to die?

For me to live is Christ
Serving his people in fruitful task.
But to die, oh don’t you see
It’s heaven, you needn’t ask.

Contentment just like joy
Is a theme you find in this book.
Paul wrote to the Philippians
And has us all on the hook.

Can in this life we make
A choice in joy to find,
Contentment in whate’er
Circumstance consigned?

Sacrifice

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What can I say?  This word sacrifice offered up by Kate this week had my mind going in different directions.  Wanting to honour Christ’s sacrifice which more than one friend simply can’t comprehend.  Wanting to note sacrifices people need to make in their everyday lives.  To considering the best way to make choices.  This poem in the end result. 🙂

Sacrifice, choose this day

Sometimes when you have a goal in mind.
A choice needs to be made.
Do you choose what emotions tell you.
Or follow now your brain?

I’m making choices lately.
Most good but others not.
After almost three months of illness.
I find that I just want out!

I want to go for night walks
Even though the cold makes me cough.
And next day leaves me winded
A good choice? Maybe NOT!

My emotions long for chocolate.
A good pick me up you see.
But chocolate isn’t so good
For really any part of me!

So I ask my Lord for help
And an answer he did give.
He let me nap the eve away
No chocolate slipped through that sieve.

I woke up with the emotion
Much less intense you know.
A much alert body
Have no fears, it won’t unwanted grow!

I heard from a lady
Who wanted sore to quit
But remembered a call God placed
On heart, again on fire lit.

I mention this because
A reminder for me it is.
A call that is placed,
Demands from me a sacrifice.

So choices I make
Emotion or mind.
Following true
The call placed.

Despite how hard
The choice may be.
Choose this day
Whom You will serve.

Sacrifice

Kate has a word for us for five minute Friday … and it is sacrifice.  You can write for five minutes (without worrying on the editing).  Link up and then encourage those who have gone on before.   🙂  Come on, it’s fun!

New Direction

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It’s Five Minute Friday again!  This week the word is Direction, and since I’ve been searching for an “N” post for the blogging through the alphabet challenge, I added the word New to the front of it.  🙂  We have the privilege of moving into a new year, perhaps with it will come a new direction.

New Direction

New Direction

Regardless of where you go,
In what direction you take
The path is always new,
And yet it always the same.

Direction
It’s always new.
Whether it seems the road continues
Or turns a time or two.

Every step you take
Is a new one don’t you see?
It’s step you haven’t taken
Even if it seems alike to thee.

In the course of years I’ve lived
In the course of time it’s passed.
Every new direction,
Is the same as the one before.

One step and then another
Alike as the one before
Heel to toe,
Step, step, step

BUT even though are steps
Are all the same,
The attitude of the heart
Can make the path new.

Or the company one keeps
Changes the tenor of the way.
An unexpected discovery,
Conversation brightens your day.

Sometimes easy,
Other times fraught with challenge.
Directions new,
Methods old.

Check who walks with you.
Follow the direction given.
Brighten your day with discoveries.
And accept the new shown.

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