Thursday, February 19, 2009
Need a verse
I am amazed at how much like little sponges 12 year olds are! My last class of the day has several of my friend's kids in it - and so I take on a little bit different personality when they come in. For some reason, I feel the freedom to encourage them like I would if they were at my house or I was at theirs. One day, they were teasing each other - which is very "par for the course" in 7th grade - and it was one of my dear friend's sons - so I said kinda quietly, "Just remember what Eph. 4:29 says!" And he said, "What does that one say?" (more eagerly than I would have anticipated) And, so I quoted, "Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouth, but only what is helpful for building others up, according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." I'm not kidding or dramatizing at all - that room got more quiet than they EVER are as soon as I started quoting the verse. Well, that was a couple weeks ago. Yesterday, they were teasing each other again, and 4 of them (not all my friend's kids) started quoting that verse to each other, and then they started correcting each other to get it right, and then they referred to one student's Math binder because he has written the verse all over his binder!! How awesome is that?! So...um...I need a new good verse - because those babies are eatin' it up!!!
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THAT is really beautiful, Valinda. God is at work, right there in your classroom.
That is SOOO AWESOME!! I so wish you had been my 7th grade math teacher instead of Miss Blalock. She was WEIRD!!
How about Philippians 2:14-15?
"Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe (16. as you hold out the word of life-in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.)"
a little added bonus for you there at the end!! You are NOT running and laboring for nothing!! See the hand of God in what you are doing!! Praise GOD!!
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Here are a couple of verses that I know Nathan has had the opportunity to use.
Psalm 101
3 I will refuse to look at
anything vile and vulgar.
I hate all who deal crookedly;
I will have nothing to do with them.
4 I will reject perverse ideas
and stay away from every evil.
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