My girls, I mean. My older daughter is nine, and my younger daughter is seven. We’ve taken great care to shelter them from a lot of things. We censor the television shows and movies they watch, the books they read, the music they listen to… There’s a lot of trash out there, and granted many things will just go over their heads when they are young. However, now that we are reading the Bible together, the girls are getting quite the education! The Bible is God’s Holy Word, and I believe that it contains everything we need for right and holy living. The cool thing about it is that God tells it like it is. Sin came into the world almost from the very beginning, and with it came evil and wickedness of all kinds. We’re just starting to get to the stories of Sodom and Gomorrah (you know where the term sodomy came from, don’t you?), but I’m thinking we’ll probably skip over a few parts. <\/p>\n
This past week we were reading in Genesis 17 together before school. The part about God making a covenant with Abraham. Here’s the gist of the story:<\/p>\n
“When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, … You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, … The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God… Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.” Genesis 17: 1, 5, 8, 10, 11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
From the seven-year-old: “Mom? What’s circumcision?” <\/p>\n
Oh great. <\/p>\n
Yes, I explained what it was to them. Then I sent them off to school and didn’t think anything about it. That night as I was tucking my youngest into bed, I asked her if she learned anything from our Bible reading that morning. <\/p>\n
Her response: “Yeah, I learned about cutting the skin off the boy’s wee-wee.” Giggle, giggle. “And I told Brett W. about it at school.” Giggle, giggle. <\/p>\n
Yes, I think we are officially skipping the chapters about Sodom and Gomorrah. They can read about that when they are older. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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