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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. www.sonlighteducation.com 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...

Last week I received a book from a friend and it has been a blessing to me. It's called "Beautiful in God's Eyes". I got it in Portuguese and it belongs to my friend but I was so happy to receive it, specially because it arrived by mail and I'm so old fashioned and appreciate receiving anything my mail, let alone a book! Thank you my friend, It was a big surprise and it came in a perfect time!  God's time is always perfect. One thing I've learned is that God always send friends on our way. Friends that can share their life with us, share their experiences, share their joy and even their sorrows, share recipes, share their children but friends that brings us close to God are sure Heaven sent and that's my only one desire: to bring you close to God and have friends that will help me to have a closer relationship with God by our conversation, by our actions, by our lifestyle.  Heaven sent friends will rejoice when you rejoice and help you to stand whe...

"A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."(Proverbs 18:24) "To a friend's house the road is never long"{ Dutch Proverb}    Last week we went to Mallorca-Spain to celebrate ou 10th wedding anniversary and had a blessed time together as a family! We spoke a lot about friendliness and how Logan and Larissa shoud play with each other and love each other as true friends.  This week's lesson is about two friends that were very true to each other and their names are David and Jonathan however Jonathan's father Saul started to be very jealous about David.  You can find more about this story in the book of 1Samuel 18:1-16 " The demon of jealousy entered the heart of the king. He was angry because David was exalted above himself in the song of the women of Israel. In place of subduing these envious feelings, he displayed the weakness of his character, and exclaimed. “They have ascri...

"Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right." {Proverbs 20:11} Unselfishness was the character quality from last week and for this week we had Reverence! There are still so much to learn about unselfishness and as we read the story of Ruth chapter 1-4 in our bible we learned from her unselfish character trait and just how much she devoted her life to her mother-in-law! Knowing this and having my own mother-in-law living with us for 7 months now,  made me think of how selfish I am and how much of my selfishness I can see in my children as they copy my wrong impulses and inclinations toward her! By watching the wisdom of my elderly mother-in-law I learned to appreciate her presence and in prayer I asked God to teach me how to love, because God is Love and love conquers everything!! That's a daily prayer that I must moment by moment in my thoughts learn to pray until it becomes a natural habit! Learning Reverence, respect ...