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Hymn Study: Praise the Lord His Glories Show

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Praise the Lord His Glories Show

Read these Lyrics eh?   It’s a lovely song.

Praise the Lord, God’s glories show, Alleluia!
Saints within God’s courts below, Alleluia!
Angels round the throne above, Alleluia!
All that see and share God’s love, Alleluia!

Earth to Heaven and Heaven to earth, Alleluia!
Tell the wonders, sing God’s worth, Alleluia!
Age to age and shore to shore, Alleluia!
Praise God, praise forevermore! Alleluia!

Praise the Lord, great mercies trace, Alleluia!
Praise His providence and grace, Alleluia!
All that God for us has done, Alleluia!
All God sends us through the Son. Alleluia!

Strings and voices, hands and hearts, Alleluia!
In the concert bear your parts, Alleluia!
All that breathe, your Lord adore, Alleluia!
Praise Him, praise Him evermore!

All this praise shown to our Lord God.  Creator, One who shows mercy, his providence, his grace, all these reasons to praise the Lord.   By his creation, his people, with their hearts, their hands, their voices.   PRAISE the Lord eh?

Written by Henry F. Lyte back in 1834.

Henry Francis Lyte was in 1793 in Scotland but was orphaned at an early age.  A poet who served as a pastor in Devonshire, England.  He died in France in 1847.  Before passing away he authored two books of poetry and hymns.  Po­ems Chief­ly Re­li­gious, 1833 & 1845 and The Spir­it of the Psalms, 1834  (Source cyber hymnal)

While pastoring a church, Mr. Lyte didn’t have a true calling of the Lord, not really understanding the faith.  A dying priest’s comments got him studying the bible, and a true conversion happened thereafter.  The dying priest “convinced Lyte that both had earlier been mistaken in not having taken the Epistles of St.Paul “in their plain and literal sense.“” (source wiki)

Mr. Lyte also wrote Abide with Me, and wrote a few other pieces of literature, such as “his Talks on the Lord’s Prayer
in verse” .  (source StemPublishing)
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I just thought this rendition below was interesting: Chinese I think…. singing this old hymn.   The organist played well too.. see how focused he was?

Choralized Version which I just thought was different.  🙂  

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Parenting: Calling

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Every three weeks or so I will be working through Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles. I hope you will join me. You can find the rest of the series here. 

This second chapter is entitled Calling. 

This chapter starts with this statement “Nothing is more important in your life than being one of God’s tools to form a human soul.”

I had to think about that a spell.  

That’s what Christian parenting is all about.  Being used of God in the formation of a new human soul that follows after him.

In this chapter he spoke to the issues of parents not actually doing the job of parenting because their work gets in the way.   They sent their young off to school or to day care or to whatever because they are unwilling or perhaps not aware of the need to be around for their children.  This work can be a paying job or a ministry focus.

Gods’ call to leaders is this “lead your family well”. 

We are asked to look to our lives and see what calls us away from this duty to parent our children well. 

Our primary purpose is to instill God-consciousness and God-submission in our children.   To make them aware of who God is, and he has a calling for each of us.    Rules for us to live by.

I found this statement interesting 
“Children who don’t acknowledge God will act as if they are God and will resist the help and rescue that God has provide for them through their parents.”  (p 31)

I have seen this with my lad.  The more aware he becomes of God and who he is, the more he is willing to accede that maybe we, his parents, have something of value to add to the discussion.  Things to make him think and ponder upon.   It’s part of our job you know?   To say “child of mine…this is God.   This God of ours is a God filled with grace and wonder and might”.   To show him/her where you catch glimpses of God.

Most recently for us this has taken place with our study on Otters.   God gave them a little flap that goes over their nose, and another in their inner ear that automatically work when they go diving.  Not only that, he’s given sea otters a patch of loose skin under their armpit so they can carry a useful rock when they going hunting.   Isn’t that simply amazing how God did this for a critter?

 

Art Series: Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting

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It is my total delight to introduce DoodleMom to you, also known as Kirsten to the blog today. I put a call out for people to do an art book post for the blog and Kirsten stepped up to the challenge. 🙂

Kirsten blogs at  DoodleMom’s Homeschooling Life and is a new to me blogger this year.  Let me tell you…she is a gal who makes me think and ponder in a way I sometimes don’t expect and that is a good thing eh?  🙂  Keeps me from being stagnant and who wants that eh?

 Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting

I did not notice until recently that a very proper and very, very smart nun with a history of teaching English and Art was also a master of polite sarcasm. 

My kids and I were watching Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting (available free on Docuwatch) and reading another chapter in her book of the same name. Art history with Sister Wendy reinforces and makes additional connections to the events and people of the history the kids are learning, as well as helping them to understand composition and technique. And Sister Wendy is also teaching my kids the fine art of polite sarcasm. 

My children sat on either side of me, magnifying glasses in hand so they could investigate each tiny detail of the paintings discussed in the text. We were looking over Sister Wendy’s comparison of illuminations from England, France, Ireland, and Spain, all from the same rough time period.
And we came to this statement, “Like the Irish monks, the British also produced manuscripts of great beauty, this being one of the very few periods in which the least visual of national groups, the English speakers, attained international fame as artists.”
“Hmmm,” I thought to myself.
As we continued, my children began to pick up on the sarcasm as well. 

We got to the section discussing the Bayeux Tapestry and Sister Wendy wrote, “It displays the same jerky animation that we find in English manuscripts. A sort of Anglo-Saxon glorified comic strip…”
Finally we read through the section on French illumination in which Sister Wendy wrote, “A lovely missal survives…,” and “…with a magnificent pictorial “O” and…”
“OK,” said my son. “She definitely likes the French best and the English least.”  While her sarcasm stings and is quite apparent, it is also exceedingly polite. A grand way to show her preferences and dislikes. 

And, once my children recognized her sarcasm, the whole activity of studying art became an interactive one. First understanding Sister Wendy’s preferences, the reasons behind them, enjoying her wit, and finally forming their own opinions on the art or artist in question.
All in all, a perfect way to study art.

Where to Find More

Book:
Amazon.ca: Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting

Amazon.com: Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting

Documentary: Sister Wendy`s Story of Painting (6 episodes)

 

 

About Kirsten

Kirsten West is a Christian Homeschooling Mom who blogs at DoodleMom’s Homeschooling Life. 

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J starts with Jump Canada and carries on..

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Welcome to week J of Blogging through the Alphabet.  I am so pleased you have joined Amanda and I in this venture.  🙂

I wasn’t sure what to do with the Letter J.  


I thought about Jump Canada which has to do with equestrian jumping.  I LOVE watching horses jump.   In fact it is one of my yearly joys to go the Royal Winter Fair and take in one of their horse shows.    Of course when I go looking for a website to show you … all I get is the Jump Canada hall of fame nominees or references to their jumping program for young riders, but no actual website.   Suffice it to say I have see a lot of horse jumping and the term “Jump Canada” used in relation to them.   My older sister was (and still is) horse crazy and showed her 3/4 Arab mare and trained her a bit to jump.

Then I thought about the JumpStart program run by Canadian Tire to encourage children to get more physically active.   You know cause horses jump and so do children right?  🙂 They do skip rope competitions/days in schools, help families put their children into sport activities, and more.  Their vision is this: Canada, where all kids have a chance to fulfill their dreams.

And since my son and I love to watch our bird feeders out back, thinking about active children made me think about birds so…

I thought about the Blue Jay that frequents our bird feeder out back, how he’s a big, slightly bossy fellow but gets pushed out by grackles frequently (one bird against a mob tends not to work).  He’s a handsome fellow but we rarely see his mate though we know he has one (at least last summer he did). We’ll see young blue jays briefly before they are gone.   They are a lovely looking bird. 

Talking about the Blue Jay of course will lead me to talking about the Toronto Blue Jays our local baseball team.  🙂  I used to love watching the Blue Jays on TV until I was hounded (quite literally) out of watching them.  People mocked me once too often for watching them so I stopped.  It simply wasn’t worth it to me.  I can’t even remember why it was such a big deal to other folks at the time.   (maybe the Jays were in a slump or something).   I got my baseball fix by sitting and watching the small teams play when I went out walking the dog I had at the time.   That was fun. And oddly enough wasn’t frowned upon. 🙂

I have a desire to go to a Jays game at the SkyDome sometime .. it’s now called the Rogers Centre or something along that line.   It would be fun if we could get reasonable tickets…be good to show the lad a major league baseball team.   I also think it would be neat to be sitting in the stadium when they open the roof.  🙂

 So there you have my letter J of the week for blogging through Canada.  🙂  
Join us won’t you?   For one week or more it’s good to have you eh?

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Hymn Study: Praise the Lord: Ye Heavens Adore Him

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Praise The Lord: Ye Heavens, Adore Him.

This is an older hymn, the first two verses found pasted inside the jacket of the hymnbook for the London’s Foundling Hospital.    This was an orphanage that was famous for their children’s chorus led by trained musicians.   It is remembered today through the hymnbook “Psalms, Hymns and Anthems of the Foundling Hospital, of 1796”.   (source Cyber Hymnal)   There is a museum dedicated the the London Foundling Hospital.

The first two verses were penned by an anonymous author, the third verse was penned by Edward Osler.

The author of the first verse paraphrased Psalm 148, showing all creation praising the Lord.  Then it shows how the Lord created all, and all the world obeys his voice.   Verse two shows God’s care for his creation, how his promises never fail.   Osler’s third verse is our praise to God.

Edward Osler was a physician and author.  He worked as physician from 1819 to 1836.   After which he devoted himself to literary pursuits. Over time he ended up as the editor of the Royal Cornwall Gazette.   He wrote several literary works as well as hymns. (source hymnary)

Lyrics: 
Praise the Lord: ye heavens, adore Him;
Praise Him, angels in the height.
Sun and moon, rejoice before Him;
Praise Him, all ye stars of light.
Praise the Lord, for He hath spoken;
Worlds His mighty voice obeyed.
Laws which never shall be broken
For their guidance He hath made.
Praise the Lord, for He is glorious;
Never shall His promise fail.
God hath made His saints victorious;
Sin and death shall not prevail.
Praise the God of our salvation;
Hosts on high, His power proclaim.
Heaven and earth and all creation,
Laud and magnify His name.
Worship, honor, glory, blessing,
Lord, we offer unto Thee.
Young and old, Thy praise expressing,
In glad homage bend the knee.
All the saints in Heaven adore Thee;
We would bow before Thy throne.
As Thine angels serve before Thee,
So on earth Thy will be done.
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I thought this tune quite different, I liked how she sang it, but not sure if it would work as congregational singing.   She didn’t sing the entire hymn.

A finally a more traditional approach

 
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The Prayer Saturated Family: The Unstoppable Power of a United Praying Family.

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 Reading through a chapter every three weeks, this study is from “The Prayer Saturated Family”.  You can read the rest of the series here.  This week we are doing chapter two “The Unstoppable Power of a United Praying Family”.

The encouragement in this chapter is to remember that praying together as a family for the neighbourhood that you live in makes a huge difference, it can transform your whole neighbourhood.

The example was given of one family that prayed for their neighbourhood, eventually seeing families coming to faith and an entire neighbourhood changed. 

I have to admit that I struggled with the author’s understanding of the prayer of Jabez.   His prayer reads “Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying “oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that you hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.”   This was not a prayer for increased spiritual influence in the world around him, this was a prayer of a man who wanted to be blessed of God with more land and good health.  Nothing more.   Mixed into a long line of genealogies, Jabez was a man who prayed, a man who was born in pain (v9) and didn’t want more of it.  God extended grace to him and gave him what he wanted. 

I do love this line, “that real disciples create real disciples” (p.29).  We can train our children not to be afraid of the world but to pray through the world, through the territory that God gives them. 

Praying through your neighbourhood as a family does this: It teaches you where you can be a blessing from God to those in your sphere of influence.   Praying through your family can give you goals to meet.   God answers these prayers and changes the family, and changes the neighbourhood.

I have to admit, I struggle with this idea. 
I have an intellectual understanding of it, and I have seen prayer in surprising action on more than one occasion, but I struggle with the idea that the prayers of one family can have such a drastic result.  And what happens if a family takes this approach and sees no change occurring?     I suppose I am seeing more of the “what ifs” and less of the “God cans”.   It stems, I think, from fear.   If I make this change, and pray with my family over the neighbourhood we are in now and over the future of where we will be, and God doesn’t answer those prayers.  What will I do with that?

I should not let this stop me.
Just as I don’t want fear to stop my lad from doing or trying something new…I shouldn’t let the fears that I have about “what if God says no” to prayer concerning this family and the areas that God might place us in. 

See I have to remember this immutable truth God is the Lord.     His decisions, his call, his ways.  He knows ALWAYS what is the best for all his people.  All he requires from us is the willingness to listen to what he wants and the simple obedience to his will.   He works through the prayers of his people, and sometimes despite the lack of prayers of his people. 

He still works things out according to his will.

It is a comfort and a hope.

Draw & Discover by Yasmeen Ismail

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 I have a DELIGHTFUL series of books for you to learn about today.  Draw and Discover books by Yasmeen Ismail.   Each book has it’s own theme from emotions, directions, or even perspective. 

I have got to walk you through these books that are geared for the younger crowd! 

One of the aspects of these books that I like is they use simple drawings and text to allow children the freedom to explore the meaning of a word using whatever they want to draw to do so. 🙂   Great paper… a thicker quality that will resist leaking through, ripping, and multiple pencil erasures.

 
The pages leave plenty of room for drawing and colouring. 

There is so much room given for children to express their creative side while learning new words.     Why not use art to help teach?

Each book is 56-64 pages long with a two page spread to help explore a single emotion (excited, sad, proud etc), or opposite words (up/down, push/pull etc). 

If you have a singleton child it is definitely a use it up as you go book, or if you have multiple children, you could use it as a springboard to developing your own pages.

Each book has a hard fly (front and back)that could be used as a book mark or a “put behind the page” sheet to prevent leaking of paint or markers to the next page.
That fly contains all the words used within the book as well, making it a good “let’s look ahead page” or a “let’s review what we’ve learned page”. 

The three books are called:
  
Happy, Sad, Feeling Glad.  Cat and Dog lead the way of exploration.
Inside, Outside, Upside Down.  Bear, Rabbit and Duck are the guides.
Push, Pull, Empty, Full.   Rabbit, Duck and Bear show the way.

All published by Laurence King.   Geared for ages 4-7 years old.  56-64 pages long.  
Everything in these books is designed to get children thinking, doodling, drawing, colouring and learning.   An innovative series by a remarkable children’s author: Yasmeen Ismail.
 

This review is part of an Art series is part of an on-going series of Art books reviewed for your pleasure and resource.    You can find more books here and here.