But the people who touched Him also believed that if they did touch Him they would be healed. That was active faith on their part. I've never seen where Jesus required gratitude as a pre-requisite for healing, but He did require an element of faith. I guess that is the idea that the author is exploring in the book. The author, I assume, was thinking about the people that Jesus ministered too and surmised that not all of them would have been healed because not all of them would have the faith to be so. The same way that not all will be saved. Even though the Gospels don't specifically mention anyone who was not healed by Christ, I guess the logic could follow since not all are saved either. Either way it is the author's literary license and she's entitled to her opinion I guess. ;) :D You are also and I hope you feel free to express it whether you've read the book or not. :) Blessings, Jennifer

Regena, you bring up a lot of good points. Like I said, I guess I can't see the forest for the trees because I read the entire book and have learned more about it from your posts than from the entirety of what I read. hehe I must be REALLY thick! hehe I LOVE C.S. Lewis! I've read just about all of his Narnia books and would really like to get into his non-fiction writings. I'll have to check that book out. Thanks for the recommendation. :)

Oh no, that's not what she means. :) In the book they are talking about why not all of them are healed, not because of Jesus, but rather because of that person's own lack of faith or unwillingness to be truly healed. They are talking about those who truly want to stay sick because it is easier than dealing with going back to family or back to work or back to being a contributing member in society. Obviously Jesus has all power to heal, but the same way that Christ came to save the world from sin, there are those who will not be saved. Not because of anything to do with Christ. His sacrifice was perfect and sufficient for the salvation of all mankind, but not all mankind will chose to accept His gift of salvation. That's what she was meaning about them all not being healed.

I use a mix of compost, perlite and Miracle Grow potting soil. I don't like to use too much peat moss because that can make the soil's ph acidic and some plants don't like that. I use fish emulsion for fertilizer for veggies and mulch the top to preserve water and also add more organic matter to the soil. One trick I learned from a gardening book years ago is how to treat the soil for nematodes/bacterias etc. In Florida we have sandy soils and no hard winters to kill bugs off and the soils are laden with nematodes. The book that I read years ago suggested cooking the soil in the oven in big batches to kill off any bacterias and nematodes, but she admits that it smells up her whole house. I have found that a microwave oven works just as well and you can do smaller batches of soil which is perfect for container gardening. It is advisable to do this out on a patio or someplace with good ventilation so that you don't stink up your whole house. I have two microwave ovens, one in the kitchen and one that is designated just for the garden. Put moist garden soil in a microwave proof container (one that you will not use for food obviously) and microwave on high for 3-5 minutes depending on the power of your microwave. This will sterilize the soil. Let cool down and then mix with your compost, perlite or whatever else you are using to ammend the soil. It completely sterilizes the soil so that all the bad stuff is gone and you get all the good stuff from your compost, just if you do this, you want to make sure the soil is cool enough to the touch so you don't wind up killing the beneficial micro-organisms in the compost. :)

Ay it's a pity your not going as far down as Florida... we have the oldest national monument in the US here. A nice fortress that was built in the early 1500's! El Castillo de San Marcos or as we like to call it "El Morro" :) http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cardcow.com/images/castillo-de-san-marcos-national-monument-st-augustine-us-state-town-views-florida-st-augustine-32510.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cardcow.com/32510/castillo-de-san-marcos-national-monument-st-augustine-us-state-town-views-florida-st-augustine/&usg=__kQxvBAgd06jiduL3qni1WnFdW-4=&h=375&w=600&sz=71&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=ZoObvclYqjWfUM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Del%2Bcastillo%2Bde%2Bsan%2Bmarco%2BFlorida%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

I'm pretty laid back with our school, and I think it's a good thing to be excited about learning and being creative, I guess I was just wondering if she's getting too old for this type of thing. Thank you to everyone for your suggestions and confirmations. :) I greatly appreciate it. On the whole I'm pretty confident when it comes to homeschooling, but I don't know, I guess I just started to doubt if I was doing the right thing by allowing it. :) Thanks again ladies. :grouphug:

I found the version that I read back in school on ebay and got it just now. Thanks everyone for your help. :):grouphug:

Thank you kindly for your excellent advice. I'll have to look into IEW. I haven't ever used it, but I'm always on the look out for good LA curricula. I never seem to find a perfect fit.

edit: My dd has spent virutally all of her independent time today drawing more comics with the Roman soldier. hehee I guess she liked the assignment after all.:tongue_smilie:

Thanks for the advice. :) I'm trying to get it all together, but I'm still so busy with teaching school that I'm struggling to find the time to hunt it all down from all the rooms in my house and get it in one place to list! :eek:

LOL That's funny. Ironically that's how I feel about Polish sometimes. It's so difficult to get to even a very rudimentary working level in the language (for me anyway :D)!

I'm curious to find out when the general homeschool population buys curriculum. I have some old curriculum I want to sell in order to hopefully raise enough money to buy a new microscope for my daughter for next year, but I'm not sure when the best time to list it is. Thank you to all who participate in this poll. It will help me a lot. :) :grouphug: Blessings, Jennifer

That's a good point. I guess that's my problem. I just take everything so literally and don't always see the "hidden" message or point in a text. For me, with Daniel being so angry throughout the entire book that reading the story that maintains such a high level of tension, I got tired of it and the ending was so anti-climactic for me. I don't know, I guess I just didn't get into the author's style too much. I have read books that don't have happy endings and even though one always hopes for a nice happy ending that ties up all the loose ends with a nice pretty bow and presents it to the reader, this is not always the case, because life is not like this. I get that, but just this book.... I don't know, I just got bored with Daniel's constant foul temper. I'm glad that at the end he obviously made some turn around, but I wish the author had fleshed the ending out more and gotten into more details of Daniel's transformation. I guess the ending just frustrates me.

Fainie!! Dziekuje bardzo! :)

LOL I can't imagine a Chileno's face the first time you ask him where you can catch the "gua gua". lol Ay, you should watch this video. I think you'll get a kick out of it. I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I saw it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpoYG-e_g2U

I thought it would be a good time to bring it up with my daughter. She has a strange fascination with Nazi's recently. Don't ask me why! hehe I got her the books of the first 3 Indiana Jones movies and she became fascinated by the Nazi Toht. She thinks he's funny because he's such a cry baby. I figured since my daughter is close to Anne's age when she started the diary, that it might be a good time to introduce it to her. I think I read it in 7th grade or thereabouts and I know it impacted me in a BIG way. Maybe it will help balance my daughter's view of the Nazi's a little bit.:tongue_smilie:

hehehehe Maybe.... but for me, I'd take the Little House books over this one any day of the week. That entire series I read in like 4 days!! I couldn't put the books down. :)

:grouphug: I'm so sorry you're going through so much. That stinks! :( I think in this case the chocolate should be taken on an as needed basis.:grouphug:

Iwka, is there any site that you know of that teaches Polish online?? The offerings for learning Polish at home are so limited. Dziekuje. :)

You see, I thought that too, but then it says, "Haltingly, Daniel walked, not after Jesus, but across the road, till he stood before the boy." So I don't know if this is just the first step in the ultimate step of following after Christ or if he is choosing here to not follow Christ and trying to do things in his own strength. :confused:

Sigh! What's wrong with me?? Why don't I like this book? hehehe I feel like I must be totally blind because I just don't see what you all see in it. :confused: What did you like about it??

I think I will take your advice and try it again in a couple of years. Hopefully I'll see what I'm not getting. :)

This is all very true and very well said if I may add. I think if you had written the book I probably would have liked it much better. ;) :D hehe You raise up a lot of good points, but I wish that at least the book could have tied up whether or not Daniel decides to follow Jesus. That would have been realistic and set within the history as well. I had trouble with the author's sentence structures as well. They seemed un-necessarily cumbersome at times. I found that as I was reading it aloud to my daughter that there were several times I had to re-read a sentence because the word order didn't flow well. I don't know if that was by design to add a type of emotion to the story, but that was another thing that bugged me about it. It seems I am the only person who didn't care for this book. I guess it just confirms to me what I have always known, that I am from another planet. ;) hehe

Come on down here and you can learn some Cuban! ;) :D hehe

2 is pretty young and I think it's normal for them to go through digressions also. I think most children don't have the consistent control and mastery of their bladders to be completely trained until closer to 3. I have a son with Autism and it was a Herculean feat to potty train that kid. He's 8 years old and he still doesn't have it totally down, but one thing I learned from a class I took on how to potty train Autistic kids might be useful to you. The first thing they had us do is just take data for 2 weeks and write down every time they are wet or have a bm. Then we look at the data and find their individual patterns and then start taking them to the potty 5-10 minutes before they would typically have to go (according to the data). We just say, "pee pee goes in the potty" and sit them down to go. If they go in the potty and are successful, we gave them a positive reinforcement and clapped and said good job. The positive reinforcement could be a goldfish cracker or a cookie or something like that (edible reinforcers are good because they are gone after they eat them and they have to work for them again the next time) but you could use a short play time with a preferred toy as well. The main thing was to work with their cycle and give them lots of praise and encouragement and reinforcement. If they have an accident, you just calmly say, "pee pee goes in the potty. You can try again next time." and not make a big deal out of it. I know it's kind of an elaborate program, with Autistic kids everything is so difficult for them, but maybe some of the ideas or principles will be helpful to you. :) It worked for us with much patience. :) Best of luck to you. :)