Five minutes

[Vince]

Mar 10, 2022 15:48:50 GMT -5 laurensobuf said:

Mar 10, 2022 15:41:54 GMT -5 mandy said:

I hope you get an A+++ on whatever you do. I don't know how much I believe in God but I think in a class about God you should always get good grades if you try because I don't think God would fail anyone if they were trying.

From your lips to God's ear

If God is the omniscient being many think God is, they should be all ears anyway. 

[quinn]

Wow. I just got this vision of a clump of ears with one giant eyeball in the center of it. I'll never pray the same way again.  

[Rosie]

 A giant eye like a cyclops thing? That is very funny.

[Vince]

Mar 11, 2022 16:14:55 GMT -5 Rosie said:

 A giant eye like a cyclops thing? That is very funny.

It's not too far from the description of the four living creatures from Revelation 4:

5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. 6 Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.



In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. 8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings.

Which sounds a lot like the four living creatures from Ezekiel's vision (except with four wings instead of six) in Ezekiel 1.

tl;dr: apocalyptic writing is wild.

[Rosie]

I don't know the old testament very good so I never heard of this before.  

[whetstone]

One of the things I tell my fourth grade CCD students is to just 'be nice'. It pretty much covers everything. If you have a choice between being right and being kind - choose kind.

Rosie, what did you end up saying for your five minutes?

[Rosie]

I made a video called the power of being kind but I can't show it here cause my dad said I'll be in trouble since I got lots of pictures of my family in it.  I got a B on it so not so great but still ok.  I don't get A's like my sister does so I'll be happy with the B. 

[mandy]

A B is a good grade.

[whetstone]

Apr 7, 2022 14:59:17 GMT -5 Rosie said:

I made a video called the power of being kind but I can't show it here cause my dad said I'll be in trouble since I got lots of pictures of my family in it.  I got a B on it so not so great but still ok.  I don't get A's like my sister does so I'll be happy with the B. 

Rosie,

I think that is a great topic.

I don't think grades matter all that much, what matters is YOU.  Did you learn something?  Did you make an honest effort to do well?  If the answer is yes, then that grade is fantastic.  If the answer is no, then even if you got an A, I would think it wasn't good enough.

Everyone is different.  Some things are easy for some people and the very same things are difficult for others.  My son is probably a lot like Scarlette - if he got a B in anything it would have been like he failed, the guy could practically sleep on a text book and quote it back to you the next day.  My oldest daughter on the other hand...  well she struggled in some subjects, like math.    If she got a C in math it was cause for celebration.  I would have been absolutely thrilled if she got straight Cs.  If my son got a C, I would have practically wanted to disown him.

Try hard in everything.  Learn as much as you can in many different things.  Grades don't matter and they certainly don't define a person.  What matters is your effort and your learning.

[Rosie]

I could of done better you know if I would of figured out what I wanted to do it on quicker because I would have of had more time but I kept changing my mind and then I was catching heck from my teacher so I finally decided on one thing and did some of it and changed it but he didn't notice I changed my mind. I should of made up my mind quicker or just did what my mom said and pick something and just stick with it. My dad told me to put things in a hat and pick one out but I wasn't going to do that. Maybe I should of. 

[whetstone]

I think you did fine. That kind of indecision is normal. Sometimes we need to realize that we can't always make perfect decisions. A 'good enough' decision made in time is better than a perfect decision made too late.