Vacation Bible School and a Science Experiment

My youngest son Thomas went to Vacation Bbile School last week. He showed me a bracelet he made. "Black beads, because I am a sinner," he said. "Red stands for Jesus' blood and white beads because He is pure." I often worry about my children's spiritual health, but this exhange soothed me somewhat. In my head, I shouted, "He gets it." This is not a guarantee that he will never fall into temptation. But I am thankful for the people who spend time at VBS teaching children about the Lord. It does make a difference in those young lives! Proverbs 3:5 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it." We also did a science "experiment." A few years ago, my sister had given my children a crystal growing kit. Not exactly deep science but following directions is important in any task! The crystals have grown but not like what we hoped for! Now we've had to go back and think about what we did wrong that caused the crystals not to grow. There's several more projects in this kit. I hope at least one will be more successful than this one! Still, we had fun and I took several pictures of Thomas while he was mixing and pouring the "compounds." Now that Thomas is ten, I've become more acutely aware of how quickly time has flown. Even though we homeschool and spend much time together, the time sometimes just gets away from us. I try to be thankful for the stages of life that my children are presently in, as well as the ones they've passed through. With a houseful of teens and a tween, we're rushing towards their adulthoods at what seems to be break- neck speed! I try to savor the last moments of Thomas' childhood as I missed some of those moments with the older children due to busy-ness. Have a blessed day!