Home School Life – awkward questions-responses. It’s okay though. Growing in Jesus. We might come off a bit awkward when we “forget” what grade we are in, because quite honestly our FOCUS is not about grade levels, but LEARNING everyday. Every day! Like even I am still learning, in Jesus until we see Him.
BUT… take it a NEW STEP further, when it is said: “oh you are a Sophomore” and again, we are stumped how to respond. What is a Sophomore??? Huh? They haven’t heard that before. How important is this? Well, it’s another lesson in “learning” to research the things the world just “does/says” because it has “been” and to understand what this is REALLY all about.
Today, after coming home from his hair cut, we decided to research the origin of Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior as referred in high school years. (One thing that has been huge for us, is to learn to “think” and “research” the why’s of so many things. This has been so amazing for me to study and learn this way with our boys. So fun to see them come alive with wanting to KNOW. Even for my oldest, who finally picked up on this pattern and way, and has learned to ask “why” and wanting to understand and think outside the box). So it was FASCINATING. And in ALL HONESTY, I would rather not use the word Sophomore with referring to my children.
The origins go way back in time, with “Greek sophos ‘wise’ and mōros ‘fool’ (the same root from which we get the word moron), making it particularly apt for the combination of arrogance and ignorance evidenced by young people”.
Yikes! And… no thank you.
No textbook is going to address the character of the heart of pride and foolishness. No label or grade level is going to determine who we are or aren’t. These ARE indeed issues of the heart that will need continued pruning and shaping until we..like WE ALL…well… might I say again.. meet JESUS!
Say no to Sophomore. Say yes… to WISE MEN WHO BUILD THEIR LIVES ON THE ROCK! Yep… that’s what grade we are in! You can call us grade: Living and learning on JESUS the SOLID ROCK
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash. When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.”
Matthew 7:24-30
That’s a little message today, for you all, from SCHOOLING ON THE ROCK
