Kathleen and I made 10 more fruitcakes today. We were going to go pheasant hunting but it was raining this morning so we decided to stay home and bake. The house smells beautiful; like cinnamon, butter, and whiskey.
Last week it dawned on me that in my world history class (we have been reading the about the pagan world; the Indians, the Japanese, the Aztecs, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Chinese, the Akkadians, the Incas, the Nubians, the Minoans etc.) that the whole pre-Christian world (except the Hebrews), all of them practiced human sacrifice and canibalism. Right now we are on ancient Greece and we have just finished reading Hesiod's Theogony, a gruesome tale of murder, incest, infanticide, cannibalism, rape, and war. I think we will be right up to Caesar Augustus in early December. And then I will assign my world history students the Gospel of Mark. I didn't plan it this way but isn't it amazing to be able to make the transition from the horrors of the demon-ruled pagan history to the Christ-filled history of the years of our Lord right at Christmas time.
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Your school teaching is making me excited, too! Those students are so lucky to have you. Who knows how potent the seeds will be, that you are planting in their hearts and minds. Just knowing you, a lifelong lover of history and knowledge, must be a powerful influence. It's interesting to think about how God has arranged the times and seasons so that these particular students are the ones to get a whiff of the fresh scent of the joy of learning.
That is pretty cool about the Gospel of Mark coming right up!
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