The Church of Jesus Christ launched a new curriculum home-based gospel learning. Now we have done family home evening and family scripture study nearly every night for 12 or more years.
Tonight we started that curriculum with a lesson about the sowers of seeds. We also had two teen cousins over for the lesson. Now, I am a little nervous. There is help in the book for working with young children and teens, but they are different sections, so it is completely up to me to figure out how to make these lessons workable for us as a family group ranging in ages from 2-45.
So we read the parable of the sower and worked on discussing how we can make ourselves (and our home), our dirt, more fertile for the gospel seeds to take root.
Did I mention, we also love wordplay, puns, and similes, and metaphors and all sorts of stuff like that?
Now add in teen boys. Pretty soon phrases like "You are dirt." and "animal poo" played heavily into the discussion. I think the take away ended up being something like "You need to take in good food to make good poo/fertilizer to make your soil healthy and strong."
So now I begin to understand that I get to play off those ideas all week during our family scriptures study.
