Sonlight Curriculum for Sale

Sonlight

Reading with Chapter Books and One-Year Condensed World History … Instructor’s Guide and Notes …(2) 3 ring binders with daily schedules and activity pages.  2005 edition

History Study Guide

Reader Study Guide

Read-Aloud Study Guide

Appendices

Bible

The Awesome Book of Bible Facts

History

A Child’s History of the World

Window on the World

Geography Songs (workbook)

Maps & Globes

Usborne Book of World History

**Peter the Great

**”The Charge of the Light Brigade”

**Catching Their Talk in a Box

Resource

1+2 Time Line Figures

Book of Time

Advanced Readers

Riding the Pony Express

The Secret Valley

A Question of Yams

**The Littles

Viking Adventure

More Stories from Grandma’s Attic

The Whipping Boy

Shadrach

The House on Walenska Street

Ralph S. Mouse

The Last little Cat

Betsy & Tacy Go Over the Big Hill

Encyclopedia Brown - Boy Detective

Henry & Ribsy

Little House on Rocky Ridge (The Rose Years)

Marco Polo

**“B” is for Betsy

Emily’s Runaway Imagination

Misty of Chincoteague

McBroom’s Wonderful One-Acre Farm

Along Came a Dog

The Toothpaste Millionaire

Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West

Read Alouds

The Aesop for Children

A Child’s Garden of Verses

Red Sails to Capri

Gladys Aylward

Little Pear

Strawberry Girl

Detective Togas

The Cricket in Times Square

The Door in the Wall

White Stallion of Lipizza

The Twenty-One Balloons

The Apprentice

**(The Little Riders)

A Little Princess

and the Word came with Power

This list includes everything that came with the order.  Those books preceded by ** are ones that I have not located yet.  Still looking.  

The price for the set is $300.00

If you are interested, you may contact me at t.knittel@yahoo.com.

The Peculiar Gift of Provision

One day several years ago, a family went on a weekend trip to the mountains.  As soon as they got there they received news that the inside of their house was being flooded by an upstairs bathroom sink water hose.    The family had to turn around and drive back to their home.  Unfortunately for the family, their home sustained considerable water damage.  The father, mother and children in this family knew that the Bible says that God is always good and deserving of praise.  So the family made a decision to praise God in the middle of the huge inconvenient mess that had marred their beautiful, newly renovated home.

During the following weeks, while the family worked to clean up the mess, and the father worked diligently to repair the ceiling, walls and floors, God presented the family with a peculiar gift.  The family didn't feel comfortable accepting the gift at first or understand why they had been given such a gift.  But the father, being wise and intelligent, set the gift in a very special place and determined in his heart to wait for a time in the future when he might understand how best the family might enjoy the gift that God had given them.

Several years passed and the family was faced with a very difficult situation in their home.  The father and mother prayed for God to give them wisdom and guidance.  They prayed for God to take care of all of the details that would be necessary to best handle the difficult situation.

As the situation became more pressing, the father and mother knew that something needed to be done but the direction they were feeling led would require a unique provision.  The parents prayed for God to provide and trusted that their faithful God would take care of every detail.  Not soon after, the father was reminded of the gift that the family had received years earlier after their home had been damaged by water.

When the father began to look at the gift that had been safely tucked away for such a long time, he noticed how perfectly it answered the current prayer need in their family.  Confidently, the family was able to take the steps necessary to deal with the difficult situation that was so heavy on their hearts.

Gratefully, the family rejoiced that long before they were even aware that they would have this particular need their Sovereign Lord had already provided them with the perfect answer to the prayers they would one day pray.

Beautiful One

I am terrible about inviting friends to our home.  This is not because I don't want them here, it's just that too often my "good intentions" and my gift of "procrastination" collide with unfortunate results. The gift of hospitality is one that I crave and have spent much time in earnest, purposeful prayer to receive.


Friends that know me well and choose to spend time with me have learned to initiate the "getting together" - in other words, they tell me when they are coming and I make plans to be at home. Let me be very clear:  this is not something I admit easily or proudly. I would much prefer to have the social graces and organizational skills to plan and follow through in such a way that our home becomes a place of blessing often and for many beloved friends.


In praying about my desire to become more hospitable I have discovered a few "unpleasant" things about myself. I am a bit of a perfectionist.  An idealist.  This is probably what feeds my unfavorable tendency toward procrastination. If I am going to entertain friends in our home I lean toward wanting everything to be perfect. I like for the house to be clean and the food to be good.  It is also pretty high on my list to have showered that day and preferably to have applied some amount of makeup.


With gentle hands, God is revealing that I have a little issue with placing unrealistic expectations on myself. These expectations are, for the most part, unattainable and at the very least appear out of reach ... so, I crumble under the pressure and procrastination takes over. I am seeing how this interferes with me being able to trust God with all the details, big and small, of my life.


When we adopted three children from Russia a little over four years ago, trusting God took on a whole new meaning in my life. Adding three non-Engish speaking children to our family changed our lives in some very drastic ways. Simple things were now challenging.  Creating and maintaining a peaceful home environment was difficult. Homeschooling five children was physically and emotionally taxing. The house was not necessarily ever clean.  The energy and time necessary to plan meals and buy groceries often seemed overwhelmingly lacking. Most days a shower and  makeup were swallowed up by a more pressing and urgent need in our home.


While we have made huge advancements in the transition and we now experience a much more orderly and peaceful lifestyle, we still struggle with the daily challenges of life. God is faithfully answering prayer and working in all of our lives. We have seen countless miracles and evidences of His grace and mercy stamped all over each of us. But sometimes, living in the middle of growing in Christ is not pretty.


This adventure of faith, the journey we are on, is a wonderful and interesting experience. It has changed things in me I never knew needed changing. The recent years have caused me to live "breath by breath" dependent on God. My abilities and strength are not enough ... but His grace is sufficient -- His mercies new every morning -- His strength made perfect in my weakness.


So, yesterday when a friend suggested coming to our house this afternoon so our kids could swim and we could visit, I said yes.  In fact, here is a glimpse into my life and the communication with my friend.

I would warn you that "I'm a mess" but I think you already know that !!!!  ... God is so amazingly good.  It's actually refreshing in a strange sort of way, that I am surviving - so much solely by grace-  that I don't have the strength or desire to "put on airs" or try to "dress up" my life to try and make a good impression on people.  I didn't realize how much I must have done this in the past.  But God is delivering me from that, all the while He is blessing and molding, refining and moving me further and further into the center of his will.  It's not pretty but He is lovely.  
The sweet aroma of worship clears the air of the smelly filthy rags that are gathering at my feet as His righteousness is replacing mine.  

Her response:  

As I grow closer to the Lord, the more painful it is .... but beautiful because we are being molded into His image .... we are being stripped away.  So, I will be coming dressed in my filthy rags today .... full of gratefulness that He is the 

beautiful One.  

I am delighted that God is allowing me to grow in His grace. It is exciting to know that He is not interested in me continuing to place unrealistic expectations on myself. He doesn't need me to "dress up" my life to make it acceptable. He desires me to become more like Him, to love with His love, and to allow His beauty to fill my life...

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  Ecclesiastes 3:11

It is good for me to be reminded that my goal is not that people see and be impressed with me, but rather they see me and be impressed with the Jesus in me.  And as my friend reminded me today, He is the Beautiful One!  

Touched by Grace

• This is a song I wrote a few weeks ago after having the opportunity of going downtown and sharing the love of Jesus with those living on the streets.  
  
  
  Touched by Grace
  words and music by Terha Knittel
  copyright 2012
  
  
  all who are broken
  wounded by life and
  living alone on this night
  if you are hungry
  cold and discouraged
  come to the Savior
  come to the Light
  
  beautiful light
  beautiful love
  beautiful truth to believe
  beautiful comfort
  hope and forgiveness
  beautiful grace to receive
  
  come receive from Him
  life that's worth living
  come taste the feast He prepares
  come drink of water
  filled with His goodness
  come let Him clothe you with
  garments of praise
  
  beautiful light
  beautiful love
  drawing you into new life
  beautiful rescue
  peace and abundance
  beautiful hands reaching you
  
  those who've received Him
  who walk in His freedom
  those who have feasted on
  His bread of life
  look all around you
  lives lost in darkness
  we are the salt and the light
  
  beautiful light
  beautiful love
  beautiful voices of praise
  beautiful rest
  beautiful healing
  beautiful lives touched by grace

Necessary Inconvenience

Inconvenient: 1) not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place. 2) inopportune; untimely: an inconvenient time for a visit. 3) not suiting one's needs or purposes: The house has an inconvenient floor plan

troublesome, awkward, or difficult

Can any good come from inconvenience?  This hardly seems possible since by it's very definition the word inconvenient appears so negative.  Not convenient, not opportune, not timely, troublesome, awkward, difficult .... that's a lot of negative.  And yet, we happen upon inconvenience quite frequently. 

This morning I was notified by my heating pad that it was no longer willing to provide heat.  I am heating pad dependent.  My husband says I'm like a reptile that needs a heat rock.  Sometimes I like the use of heat on an aching muscle and often I just like, for no particular reason, the warmth a heating pad generates.  So this morning I was greatly disappointed that, even though the little red light was "on", the heating pad was not fulfilling it's intended purpose.  

And then I remembered an older heating pad that I pretty certainly believed was in the closet.  

What I thought was going to be a momentary glance over the shelves to locate the brightly colored orange and yellow heating pad turned into an inconvenient thirty minute clean-up.  Although I didn't immediately see the heating pad I did notice a white cord that looked promising.  As I attempted to find what I was hoping would be the heating pad at the end of the cord I set off an incredible avalanche of items that spilled out onto the closet floor.

Unfortunately, the main item to fall was my little sewing basket.  It's not actually a sewing basket but rather a lovely little basket one of my sisters-in-law made years ago.  Since I am not a seamstress and have little hopes of becoming one, I have never had a real sewing basket...the kind with a lid.  

As I began the arduous task of locating and gathering all of the needles, pins, buttons, spools of thread, etc. I realized that this inconvenience was, in all honesty, necessary.  It was necessary for me to organize my "sewing" supplies more properly.  Organizing a sewing basket would make it easier to find what I'm looking for when the kids need something from my sewing basket AND with a secure lid there would be less chance of the contents spilling all over my closet floor again.  (note to self:  since I don't use the contents of the sewing basket and only have one to store items the kids need, maybe I should just set each of them up with their own baskets ...)

The inconvenient mess and subsequent clean up....One more inconvenient phone call or last minute change in plans that totally mess up an intact schedule....Children who, at the very last possible moment, show up at the door ready to leave for church with clothes that either do not match, do not fit, are not in season or just plain look goofy.  We deal with inconveniences all of the time.  On second thought, maybe we encounter inconveniences but don't deal with them so well.  

When I am inconvenienced there seems to be an opportunity for me to grow. The question is - will I take the time to find the good that can come with the untimely, inopportune, troublesome, inconvenient, difficult interruptions that cause me discomfort? An inconvenience can reveal a change that needs to be made.  Maybe I need to be a little more organized, a little more patient, a little less self-centered.  I have a feeling I should accept that the inconveniences that come may, at times, be necessary. 

And I'm sure glad I noticed the straight pin that landed inside one of my shoes.

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