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Good morning and happy new week! The week of Unleavened Bread is over, we're counting toward Shavuot, and in the Elliott home, it's time to start "busy season." This is the time of year when families start planning a new homeschooling year, and we get really busy helping them in any way we can. Combined with the beautiful flowers and green grass out my window, I really enjoy this time of year!

My goal is to bring a little bit of Scripture, a sprinkle of encouragement, and a dash of hope to your day. I love a good cup of coffee (brewed like this), but if some other drink is more your style, I'm sure that will work. The point is for you to take a break from crazy living, just long enough for a sip of joy.

qarah—to read; to call out; to raise one's voice or speak loudly and with urgency; calling out words. Source

I never dreamed I could learn so much about clothing from Proverbs 31. However, as I was studying for this verse, I noticed something very interesting. To “gird” your loins means to wrap something tightly around you, usually so that you can move your legs and get moving.

As you can see from the woman in this photo, she’s got an awful lot to carry. She’s got no hands left to hold all her skirts, so she just tucks her skirts up into her belt and takes off on her way. Here in America, we’d just trade in the skirts for a soft pair of blue jeans, so we could get our work done with nothing in the way.

In the Bible, the phrase, to gird up the loins, is used for people who want to get serious about something. Continue Reading

Why is it important to teach our children to read instructions? Why do we spend the first ten years (or so) of a child’s life emphasizing basic literacy skills, such as phonics, spelling, handwriting, and fluency in reading? Why should we expect that a child raised in a Torah-observant household would have a higher ability in reading than a child raised in a pagan home?

The fact that YHWH God has revealed Himself as the Word of God reveals how important words are. Not only is YHWH equal to the Word, but He used words to create the world — which means that as humans, we are able to understand the creation around us by use of the written word. Most importantly, YHWH chose to reveal His instructions to us as words. Read More

It’s every homeschooling mother’s worst nightmare to find that her child is struggling to learn to read. She begins to feel like a failure. She wonders if the public schools would have better resources. She wonders if she taught something wrong. She fears that her child may have a serious health problem.

Another problem families sometimes face is that curriculum doesn’t perfectly fit where their children are in abilities. For a short time, they feel trapped between levels and don’t know what to do.

Let’s talk about what to do for children who are struggling to learn to read. Read More

Thank you for taking time to sip coffee with me. I hope your day is tov⁠—good and accomplishing what the Creator designed you for. Everything your hand finds to do, do it with all your might and for the glory of Yah!

Shalom,

~Anne Elliott

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