Time Flies!

WOW--the last month + has just flown by! I didn't realize how behind I was in blogging until a friend e-mailed and pointed out how long it had been since I'd posted . . . and I could hear her toe tapping disapprovingly in the background. That was about four days ago . . . (sorry Suze!)

It seems like I've been working on several projects, forever! One is writing the curriculum for the midweek classes at our church. Midweek takes place on Wed. evenings, for grades 3-6. Grades 7 and 8 are in Confirmation classes, and the pastors take care of those classes. I'm on the Board of Education at our church, and was talking to the pastor about the midweek classes. We talked about curriculum, and he mentioned how what they'd used last year was very expensive and the teachers didn't really like it. Somehow . . . I volunteered to write a new curriculum for this year! I enjoy projects like this, and was excited about setting it up how *I* wanted to.

I decided to take lessons and stories directly from the Bible; I never really liked the focus in what seems to be most Sunday School and midweek classes, on one aspect of a Bible Story--you know, Jonah was swallowed by a whale (but why was he running from God? I think THAT is the real lesson!). Or the focus on crafts or games. Fun, yes . . . but what does glueing a cotton ball beard on Moses really teach us about what he did? (and how many moms dread their child bringing home yet another "craft" project -- very little of which was creative or actually done by their child)?

I certainly don't mean to criticize the companies that put out curricula . . . and I'm forever greatful to the teachers who have that ability as teaching kids is definitely NOT a gift of mine. I just hope that what I've written will teach kids to go to the Bible for the answers they need in life situations.

ANYWAY . . . I just can't seem to finish the last few classes. I have the ideas, they're written out, and I just need to get them typed up and to the pastor for his approval (he liked the classes I've already turned in, so I think he'll approve these too). I guess like the ad, I have to "JUST DO IT!"