Obedience and Spring Time

The character quality for this week's lesson is Obedience.

"Obedience to God's counsel brings peace to our lives"

 and it seems like we repeat this character quality many times in our homeschool materials.

Here's the memory verse for this week:

We started a new year in our Family Bible Lessons and for this quarter we are learning about Birds.

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Here is a little bit about this Year 2 Quarter 1 from Sonlight Ministry Family Bible Lesson:

The kids with their friends got some tadpoles and we brought 7 home

We will share more about it during the coming weeks and see how the tadpoles are growing :) so far 2 of it got legs;

Spring Time is the happiest time of all!! There's flowers blooming in every corner, the green grass that covers the earth is like a carpet that spreads everywhere. 

"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." 

{ Genesis 8:22}

Blessed promises that we can lean on because God's promises never fail! 

Wednesday is our raw day so we went to the park and had a yummy raw lunch

"The more quiet and simple the life of the child--the more free from artificial excitement and the more in harmony with nature--the more favorable it is to physical and mental vigor and to spiritual strength."{Education p. 107} 

So this is it for now :)

Have a blessed weekend and now I remembered that this Sunday is celebrated Easter by many people so I just want to share something else with you:
Here in England I hear more about the word Lent(40 days of fasting) than about the word Easter;
In United States I would hear the word Easter or egg hunt all the time and also about Ash Wednesday;
In Brazil I remember listening to a 40 day called "Quaresma" in portuguese, but that's because I was catholic there and they too would talk about the Ash Wednesday; 
By reading the bible and asking God for His Spirit and knowledge I found that Jesus and His disciples kept the Passover because they were Jewish men with Jewish observances:

"This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord - a lasting ordinance." (Exodus 12:14)

"Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.  Jesus sent Peter and John, saying ‘go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.'" (Luke 22:7-8)

I also just google the word Easter and found a lot of interesting info:

The modern English term Easter derives from the Old English word Ēastre or Ēostre.^{[nb 2]}

The word Easter is held by some to have originally referred to the name of an Anglo-Saxon goddess, Ēostre.^{[nb 3]} Easter is held by others to have originally referred to the name of a Babylonian goddess, Ishtar. ^[22] Others surmise that Eostre and Ishtar, pronounced identically, are two forms of the same word, referring to two forms of the same goddess, although the spelling differentiated through time and distance. ^[23]

In Greek and Latin, the Christian celebration was and is called Πάσχα, Pascha, words derived, through Aramaic, from the Hebrew term Pesach (פֶּסַח), known in English as Passover, which originally denoted the Jewish festival commemorating the story of the Exodus.^[24][25] Already in the 50s of the 1st century, Paul, writing from Ephesus to the Christians in Corinth,^[26] applied the term to Christ, and it is unlikely that the Ephesian and Corinthian Christianswere the first to hear Exodus 12 interpreted as speaking about the death of Jesus, not just about the Jewish Passover ritual.^[27] In most of the non-English speaking world, the feast is known by names derived from Greek and Latin Pascha.^[4][28]

"Christmas day, precious reminder of the sacrifice made in man's behalf, should not be devoted to gluttony and self-indulgence, thus exalting the creature above the Creator. Let us who are partakers of this great salvation show that we have some appreciation of the gift by rendering to God our thank offerings. If we would indulge less in feasting and merriment upon these occasions, and instead make them the means of benefiting humanity, we should better meet the mind of God. It is a pleasure and gratification to exchange gifts with our friends, but are there not nobler and more glorious objects for which we may give our means, and thus do good by shedding light upon the pathway of others?Our holidays have been perverted from their intended use. Gifts are lavished upon one another, and praise which should have been given to God, to whom all these things belong, is bestowed upon poor mortals. I have thought that while we restrain our children from worldly pleasures that have a tendency to corrupt and mislead, we ought to provide them innocent recreation to lead them in pleasant paths where there is no danger. No child of God need have a sad or mournful experience. Divine commands, divine promises, show that this is so. Wisdom's ways "are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." Worldly pleasures are infatuating; and for their momentary enjoyment many sacrifice the friendship of Heaven, with the peace, love, and joy that it affords. But these chosen objects of delight soon become disgusting, unsatisfying. "(Ellen White) http://www.whiteestate.org/issues/christmas.html#To%20Glorify%20God,%20Not%20Man 

I will be praying and asking God understanding to know what to share with my children during this time of the year and chocolates are not on my list.

May the God who gives wisdom and understanding gives us also strenght to be courageous to do His will and serve Him daily in the common things of life as Jesus did.

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."(James 1:5) 

Kindly
Lucy :)