Simple Definitions

Patience (Amended)

A recent post here gave a simple definition for patience. Patience is waiting without complaining.

Then, not long ago at our ballroom dance class, a new meaning was dropped into my heart and mind. You see, ballroom dancing is a great way to learn more about leading and following. In dancing, the man is always the leader, the woman, always the follower. (Quite a concept, don’t you think ;-) And man! Is it ever hard to learn to follow in dancing, because as a follower, you must learn to WAIT for the lead.

My new definition for patience?

Patience is waiting without suggestions…..

Enough said?

At least Dirk didn’t stomp on my foot!

The King is in the Castle!

When Erin, Andrew and Ali were very young we were learning about authority and obedience. We made crowns and I let them dress up as kings and queens. We learned several things about castles, knights, ladies, princesses and all manner of kingly things. We said things like, “yes, your majesty”, we played servant and master. When daddy would get home from work, I would announce, “The King is in the castle.” He would be seated in the seat of honor (the head of the table) and his food was served to him. It was great fun.

The interesting thing about that learning time is that I think I learned more than my kids. (Isn’t that how it goes with home education?)

I learned that my husband was indeed the king of our castle, and that he not only deserved the honor of that position, he relished it. He loved being pampered, served and most of all, honored.

Honor is treating others well because they are important.

For the next few posts, I want to discuss ways we can honor our husbands and show him how important he is. Hope you’ll stay tuned and add your ideas.

Simple Definitions

Responsibility

"‘Ponsipility is doing the thing you should in the time you should"

Ali was so cute when she was about three years old (she'll be 24 this week!) reciting the definition of responsibility in her sweet, little girl voice. Ask any of my kids…they’ll still be able to rattle this one off—most likely including the shortened version of the word, since we repeated the story so many times!

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Simple Definitions

Patience

Several years ago, we used a program called Konos to teach godly character qualities to our children. From that program, we developed some simple definitions of words so we could easily remember them. Some of them were Konos’ definitions, for some we chose our own. My youngest children could say the definitions in their sweetest, most childish voices.

"Patience is waiting without complaining".

This one has stuck all these years. Ask my oldest kids what patience is. They’ll still answer you, “waiting without complaining”. They may also sing you a song, “Have patience, have patience, don’t be in such a hurry….” Bet some of you know that one too!

Do you have a good, simple definition for patience?