In honor of my Michigan friends who will see SNOW tomorrow. Close the sunroof!
I told Pam this afternoon that I feel like there are six projects half done and I feel slightly irritated by that. I want to wrap them all up...so I can start on Ilsa!
I'm a few hours away from finishing the master bedroom, not including getting the new furnishings. I ran electrical underground from the house out to the lily pond for the light and filter, but I need to find a way to hide the cords for those to things. We need to have a garage sale to get rid of the old bedroom furniture, some tools I'll never use again and misc. household stuff. And I'm WAY behind on "yard" work.
Tomorrow I'm working at the clinic. They do pediatric physical therapy (Teri and her team) and occupational therapy (Josh and his group). I'm embarrassed to say Josh was well into his degree before I knew what "occupational therapy" meant. Isn't child labor outlawed in this country?
Physical therapy works on range of motion, flexibility, core strength and the like. Occupational therapy follows up on that by teaching the patient (child, in this case) to perform specific tasks. It may be as simple as sitting upright, or holding and using a pencil. In each of the therapies the goal is maximum function given the child's limitations.
Some special needs children can be taught to feed themselves. But the process sometimes involves even more mess that should be expected from a young child learning that skill. So I'm going to work in one of the therapy rooms, taking up the carpet in a 5'x5' area in one corner and putting down vinyl flooring. Then I'll put that white "paneling" like they sometimes use in commercial bathrooms along the walls in that corner of the room. The end result will be a space where a specially designed high chair can be placed and eating skills taught, with an easier and better clean-up afterward.
I think the biggest challenge will be getting up ALL the adhesive that was used to lay the carpet on the cement slab. Any bumps will be a problem under the vinyl.
Which of these cars would you like to own? (The Mustangs do nothing for me. I want some handling, too.)
At the end of our class this morning we talked about the two things our children need to understand about their relationship with God, and how we as parents teach them those things.
Specifically, they need to know about the holiness of God and their failure to measure up to that absolute standard. They also need to know about the great love of God that offered his own Son to pay the penalty for their failure.
By teaching them they must submit to authority, and that failure to submit brings consequences, we teach them about God's holiness through modeling. For at least the first three or four years of a child's life his parents are God. What they see from mom & dad is how, to a large extent, they will understand God. If their parents don't require a child to submit to authority and then fail to administer consequences when they don't (and even the most passive child won't from time to time) the child will assume God works the same way.
Similarly, if a child doesn't get a very strong sense of their parent's unconditional and constant love and care for them, they'll have trouble understanding God loves them that way.
So....a question presents itself. It is not, and should not be one or the other of those two truths. Both can and should be taught through words and actions simultaneously. But, from a logical (not chronological) standpoint, which comes first? That is, do children - and adults - need to understand their sinfulness as the setup for God's loving provision through Christ, or does his love for us so define our relationship that it logically precedes and covers the sin when it arises?
Discuss.
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