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Our Summer Homeschooling Plan

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June 5, 2023 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentOur Summer Homeschooling Plan

We are still homeschooling year round in high school. I floated the idea of taking the entire summer off to see what Caroline would say. (I honestly wasn’t sure.) I asked her if she would be interested in taking the summer off or if she would get bored. She didn’t even have to think about it. She said she would get bored.

So there we go.

Over the weekend we analyzed the calendar and set up a schedule for the time between Memorial Day and the week of Labor Day. We’ll do learning for eight weeks and have seven weeks off. It’s broken up in a way that made sense to us but not according to any fixed schedule such as two weeks on and then two weeks off. It’s more mixed up than that. We don’t have school weeks or vacation weeks for more than two back to back. So sometimes it’s two in a row and sometimes only one. It should give us a nice mix of getting two months of schooling in and getting plenty of time off to pursue our individual interests.

Even during the weeks off, plenty of “learning time” will take place. I’ll keep track of things done that I can add them to the appropriate classes (Home Economics, Art, Music, History, etc.). 

We’ll be finishing up her second year of high school with this summer schedule. 

If there is one thing I “miss” about being part of the schooling system whether as a student or a teacher, it’s that rush of freedom you feel on the last day of school when you are done. We don’t experience that as homeschoolers which is perfectly fine. I’ll take the freedom to conduct my own life over any momentary rush of emotion every time. But I do miss it a tiny bit since it was my world for many, many years. 

But that says a great deal about the system when one of the things many homeschooling parents say they miss from their own school days is the feeling of being set free, doesn’t it?

Artwork: “Afternoon Pastimes” by Theodore Gerard

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Our Trip to the ER on Sunday

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June 2, 2023 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentOur Trip to the ER on Sunday

On Sunday morning I remarked that we had a nice open Sunday. We would be able to go to church and simply come home. In addition, we had a free Memorial Day as well. We all needed some down time.

Well, that was not to be.

Each Sunday a deacon opens the service with Scripture, a few thoughts, and prayer. Last Sunday was David’s turn. He’s done this many times before. Part way through, it became clear something wasn’t right. I (like other people) thought maybe he was getting choked up while he was reading since he was having trouble reading part way through, but Romans 1 isn’t a passage that generally moves someone to tears. He was clearly not himself. As his wife, I was certain it wasn’t just emotion.

He got through it with some difficulty and sat down with Caroline and me. I looked at him a few times and finally had him go out to the narthex with me. I asked him if he wanted to go home because he didn’t seem well. He mentioned numbness on the left side of his face, arm, foot, etc. As we talked, I said I thought we should leave and maybe even go to the med center that is half way between our church and home.

So we were searching for stroke symptoms on the phone while on the way to the med center. When I dropped David and Caroline off at the door, I told them to go straight to someone and tell them he thinks he might be having a stroke. I knew that would move things along tremendously.

They got him into a room before he had even finished registration. They ran some basic tests which were normal other than his heart rate being up. But given his age they thought he should go by ambulance downtown to the ER for immediate tests and not have to wait in the waiting room there. The only way to rule out a mini-stroke that might lead to a full stroke was to do more tests.

So that’s what we did.

The tests all came back fine. The discharging doctor (who was a delightful young woman) told him he has the heart and numbers of a twenty year old. She said she doesn’t often get to deliver good news so it was a nice change for her. She couldn’t tell us what happened, but it was nothing to do with his heart.

Our conclusion was that it was a spiritual attack or a trigger point that messed him up. A friend also suggested that he could have had a mini-stroke and the Lord healed it before the tests were done. Some might suggest it was a panic attack, but it wasn’t that.

I find it interesting that this happened right after I wrote the post about The Power of the Name of Jesus Christ.

In any case, he was perfectly fine the next day. Since it happened at church, Caroline kept two of her friends informed via texts and they shared the news with someone else who got a note to our pastor to announce what was going on before the service ended. (Things moved that quickly. We were already on our way to the ER before the service even ended.) Our church family was praying for us through the entire thing. We were grateful for that.

So now we will find out how Samaritan Ministries works on the other side. We’ve just started our fifth year with it and we’ve thankfully never had to submit a need to share. It is a blessing to send out a check each month to another Christian household and know that we are directly meeting a need in the body of Christ. Now we will be on the receiving end.

This was the first time we’ve had any interaction with corporate medicine since January 2020 when we took Caroline to her former pediatrician for a respiratory infection. I specifically remember asking the doctor what he thought of the covid stuff in the news and he said he didn’t think it would be any big deal. Interesting.

Everything felt normal at the hospital and almost everyone was very kind and pleasant. There were only two people we dealt with who were wearing masks and they were (ironically) the least pleasant people with whom we interacted. Otherwise we were blessed with very nice nurses and doctors, something I started praying about as soon as I knew we were heading to the ER. We remarked we were thankful  this didn’t happened in the previous few years because Caroline and I would have been forbidden to even enter the hospital with David since neither one of us could wear a mask. So we gave thanks for that.

The only other interesting bit had to do with the ambulance. David rode by himself because Caroline and I ran home to grab a few things before we drove downtown. One of the first things the woman asked David was if he had been vaccinated. He said he had not. She said, “Good for you. Don’t get it.” Take that for what it’s worth. If I had been in the ambulance with him, I would have peppered her with questions because I’m guessing she has some stories to tell. David, however, is not wired like me and he wasn’t feeling the best so he didn’t discuss it any further.

So that was how we spent our nice open Sunday. Not very relaxing, but we now know that David has an incredibly healthy heart. That’s good to know. We’re thankful he is fine and the Lord protected him from any further troubles, whatever it was that made him so ill.

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The Anisotropic Gemstones in the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:9-27)

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June 1, 2023 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentThe Anisotropic Gemstones in the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:9-27)

The reality of the anisotropic gemstones in the New Jerusalem as described in Revelation 21:9-27 is truly amazing. Creation confirms the Creator over and over again if we simply look around. But this takes it to another level. No one but God could have known this.

Now imagine how much is known by scientists and historians but is hidden from us. Why? Because they hate God or deny God’s very existence. They will do anything to hide the reality of our Creator.

I added the Scripture passage they are discussing  just under the embedded video. 

Revelation 21:9-27

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal. The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates. There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west. The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls. The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height. And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.

The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass. The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone:

The first foundation was jasper,

the second sapphire,

the third chalcedony,

the fourth emerald,

the fifth sardonyx,

the sixth carnelian,

the seventh chrysolite,

the eighth beryl,

the ninth topaz,

the tenth chrysoprase,

the eleventh jacinth,

and the twelfth amethyst.

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.

But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp. By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory. Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.

And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

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