Key Concepts a Student Should be Given
Liberal devices --- Isaiah 32:8 , as in apply the oil liberally, not sparingly, for the desired effect.
One translation says it this way, "The righteous man devises liberal things, and thereby do his things
stand, succeed, perform, confirm, endure, be established.
You almost have to re-teach the word liberal. It has strong political connotations today that almost drown out
the sense of a liberal application of oil, or a liberal supply.
And this is another reason to heed the scripture, "Hold fast the form of sound words."
Prudence --- not being foolish, not reaching too high, nor taking too little water to cross the desert
Devices - ways and means
Established -- having a lasting effect
Suggestion: Run your concordance on 'devices' and study each verse. Also on 'established'.
Quite some significant life lessons there. Which we do well to study, learn, and apply.
And such understandings greatly help the children avoid mistakes and do well.
Children before God includes all ages of us.
How to teach:
Use a story. Show an example or two or three. Discuss and draw out their understanding.
A teacher of wisdom will draw out their understanding.
As in plane geometry we would see a declaration, supported by more than one piece of evidence.
As in plane geometry we learned to see the connections between various truths. Teach the connections
till the child learns to hunt them for himself and is able to see them. And teach connections to the previously
established body of knowledge, showing how it all fits together. Get the geometry right so the student can gain a sense of proportion and priority.
Rightly dividing material is important and is facilitated by showing structure.
There are righteous devices and there are crooked devices, evil and corrupt.
Teaching with corrupt devices cannot teach the same as using righteous devices.
This includes the spirit of the teacher, as well as any other devices (ways and means) employed to cover the subject.
Looking to God, as did Daniel and the three Hebrew children in Babylon, makes the difference of God being in the devices.
God being in the devices makes the lesson "established" (see above definitions)
God is the Alpha and Omega. Jesus, the Beginning and the End. The goal and the reason and the path (devices) .
Teaching Truth to Your Children
Oh you can teach them truth,
but if you don't ground it in scripture
then how will they know to hold it
when adversarial statements contradict
Take this little lesson below.
Unless the child knows the principle scriptures of
"counting the cost " before beginning to build
and
planning with abundant resources instead of just barely enough
and the "prudent" man who carried plenty of "extra" water to cross the desert just in case
verses the foolish man who carried just enough water for the best possible trip.
Then , unless those things are known, the child might easily be persuaded out of the wisdom.
Unless the child knows the authority and foundation of his or her understanding is God,
then he or she might easily be swayed away from the safe and narrow path, instead trudging dangerously
near to the edge of the clift.
The story of the king who lived on the top of a mountain with a spiral road leading up to the mountain top.
The king's chariot driver had died of the fever, and the king needed a new driver to guide his horses
and chariot up that spiral road circling round the mountian to reach the top. For at the right hand edge
of the road all the way to the top was a clift dropping down.
Men came from all around the kingdom to try out for the job of being the king's trusted driver.
Men of skill and fame in chariot driving and horsemanship.
As the contest unfolded, the watching eyes of the crowd saw talented young men of great skill
showing deftly how close to the edge they could drive, and how swiftly they could reach the top.
Then a man drew boo's from the crowd as he started his horses off at a slow walk clinging to the inside
of the road close to the left wall of the circular spiraling cone shaped mountain. It took him 10 times
longer than the others to reach the top. But after he reached the top, the king declared the contest was
over.
Who won and why?
I love you a bunch. Here's a story worth telling.
So here it is for you.
Not just cause the story's good
but because I love you more than enough to tell you.
Dad
Just watched Horatio's Drive: First Automobile Journey Across America
Good. Worth watching. There were no roads of cement. Just horse and buggy roads, and mountains and plains and creeks and rivers.
Some original film taken then. And his letters to his wife as he traveled.
And there was a special thought at the end which seems worth passing on to you.
When asked if he had any advice for others planning to make the journey,
he thought a moment and then said, They should figure up what they think it will cost them
and then multiply that by twenty.
In set theory this is the one that is classified as "totally new experience" = x20
Contractors bidding a familiar job, but unknown variables still there, like remodling, use x3
Only HenryFord type production lines of exact duplication can figure exact costs and expect to be close. =x1
Three sets ?
worth remembering?
hope so, and expand on it. It'll serve you well. Even Nasa can't calculate the cost X1. Apply the thought in your lives as it comes up.
Love always
dad
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Get set for an adventure that marked a new era in America! Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns presents the hilarious 1903
saga of the first transcontinental automobile trip.
On a visionary whim and a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson became the first person to drive
an automobile across the continent.
His arrival in New York City--after every imaginable breakdown and delay including
being towed by a cowboy and his horse--proved that the "horseless carriage" really did have a future.
Horatio's Drive companion book
Companion book: $24.95
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Horatio's Drive: Companion Book
by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Here — in Horatio Nelson Jackson’s own words and photographs — is a glorious account of his months-long,
problem-beset, thrilling-to-the-rattled-bones trip with his mechanic, Sewall Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud.
Jackson’s previously unpublished letters to his wife, brimming with optimism against all odds, describe in vivid detail every detour,
every flat tire, every adventure good and bad.
And his nearly one hundred photographs show a country still settled mainly in small towns,
where life moved no faster than the horse-drawn carriage
and where the arrival of Jackson’s open-air (roofless and windowless)
Winton would cause delirious excitement. Hardcover, 192 pages, with 146 illustrations and 1 map.
Horatio's Drive soundtrack CD
Soundtrack CD: $18.98
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Horatio's Drive: Soundtrack CD
Track Listing
1
He'd Have to Get Under - Get Out And Get Under
2
Horatio Nelson Jackson (Setting Out)
3
Back 'n Forth In Pahrump, Nevada
4
Train On The Island
5
Kansas City Kitty
6
Livery Stable Blues
7
Lagrima
8
Cripple Creek
9
Mississippi Rag
10
Mountain Medley
11
Horatio Nelson Jackson (Frightening Horses)
12
Wade's Dixieliner Special Railroad Blues #9
13
Bury Me Not On The Lone Prarie
14
He'd Have to Get Under - Get Out And Get Under
15
Carolina Traveler
16
Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus
17
Steppin' Out
18
Storm Music
19
Blood Strained Banders
20
Rovin' Gambler
21
Idanha Chieftain (First Car In Soda Springs)
22
River Of No Return
23
Shenandoah
24
Straw Dolls
25
Horatio Nelson Jackson (Just Watch Me Now)
26
Carousel
27
Tiger Rag
28
Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
29
New York Herald (Arrival In NYC)
30
Yogi's Lament
31
Cecile
32
Newspaper (Fined For Speeding)
33
He'd Have to Get Under - Get Out And Get Under (vocal version)