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Logos
October 28, 2008
On Monday, I had the opportunity to pop in at Logos School in Moscow, ID for a visit. As I slowly ascended the steps in front of the main door, I realized that in the two years of attending Logos (1988-1990), I had never simply "walked" up the stairs. The short stair was always taken at a full running gallop with a two-stair stride or if I was feeling particularly sassy, I would even attempt the three-stair stride. Much has changed and much has stayed the same at Logos since those days. A more mature (in more ways than one) Amber climbed the stairs, yesterday.
They are busy scurrying about preparing for their upcoming dramatic presentation of "Oklahoma!" in just a couple of weeks. Check their website if you would like to attend and enjoy a treat. Mr. Garfield (the same Mr. Garfield who directed the two Logos productions I had the privilege to perform in) is the Jack-of-all-Trades at Logos. His talents and duties begin with Superintendent, Elementary Principal, Drama Director, and community actor. I mustn't neglect his roles as husband and father.
It was so delightful to explore the campus and see how the school has changed. There is a fundamental quality that was developed in me at Logos and I am so thankful for those precious two years of my education there. Here is the principle:
If one has learned how to LEARN, then one is capable of advancing and growing in every area of life by faith and perseverence. I am so thankful to the Lord for this very elementary teaching. As a parent, I hope to do this for my children. In whatever we do at home, I pray that the children will always be able to rise up and give glory to God, that they may then teach their children (and every generation thereafter) to give glory to God and that they "will blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree."
My favorite passage of scripture is Deuteronomy 6. Read it and treasure up the commands and the promises given to God's people and in particular the parents.
"1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers.
19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us."
God bless you in your endeavors to teach your children and love them to Christ!
A.
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