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#1 · July 31, 2002, 8:38 am

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Posted by: homenews <homenews@...>

Dear Hope Chest friends,

I thought you all might like to see this! I have a lot of respect for
Diana Waring, and I plan to get her new book, Reaping the Harvest, very
soon! ~~ Virginia

--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Diana Waring - History Alive!" <[email protected]>
Date: 30 Jul 2002 23:23:54 -0000
Subject: Diana Waring's Highly Irregular Newsletter

Dear Friends,

Yes, it's been a long time. Actually, it's been a horrendously long
time! Why no newsletter, you ask? Well, I would beg you to please
extend grace this way - I have been writing the sequel to "Beyond
Survival," traveling around the U.S. and up into Canada for homeschool
conventions, and trying to keep up with my three children. You've been
on my heart, and it is with great excitement that I send out this edition
of my Highly Irregular Newsletter.

If you would care to join me, I would love to share with you an excerpt
from my newest book, Reaping the Harvest, which has just arrived from the
printer! I pray that it would be a chuckle and an encouragement for you
today...

Tacoblivion

One of the most embarrassing memories of my childhood was the night my
parents invited a neighboring couple over for tacos. Now, I have to tell
you that my mom made a mean taco - she was from Texas, after all - and
they were fairly famous around the neighborhood. It was incredibly easy
to eat oneself into oblivion on Mom's tacos, and that is basically what
happened that night. Though I was only about eleven at the time, I ate
six huge tacos with great abandon. Evidently, our visiting neighbors ALSO
ate a significant portion of the delectable entrée.

Later that night, in the manner of days gone by, we walked our
neighbors back to their home, visiting as we ambled. The gracious lady,
our visiting neighbor, made this remark:

"Oh, Joyce, I can not tell you how good those tacos were! You know, I
just made a PIG of myself!!"

In my eleven-year-old brain, I completely agreed with the sentiment of
having made a pig of myself. Unfortunately, my brain was not quite
conversant with HOW one expressed what one thought. What came out of my
mouth was: "Boy, you can say THAT again!!"

Stunned silence. Then gasps of outrage on the part of my parents and
stuttering apologies, while I tried to figure out what had just happened.
Hmmm. A definite doghouse experience.

This incident came back to me vividly when Isaac was eleven. We were
spending a weekend on the coast of Washington, and a fine, convivial
family time it was swimming, beach walking, sandcastle building, and
more. We made sure to also celebrate this mini-vacation by eating
fabulous food fixed in fascinating fashions.

One evening, during dinner, I made a remark that, if I ate much more of
this kind of rich food, I would have to waddle back home. Isaac chimed in
with: "Man, Mom, I was just thinking the same thing!"

Yeow!! Instantly I turned into a fire-breathing, mad-as-a-hatter,
tiger-by-the-tail mother, especially because I had a continuous struggle
with weight gain.

"Isaac, come with me! We are going to have a SERIOUS talk!!"

I was so offended and so hurt by his comment that I could hardly sit
down and have a calm discussion with him. Doing my best, I asked him why
on earth he would try to hurt his mother with such a spiteful comment. He
looked at me in tearful amazement and said: "But, Mom, I wasn't talking
about you . . . I was talking about ME!"

Ah. Well, ahem . . . light bulb flash in the old memory banks.

Slowly, with increasing moment-by-moment understanding, I began to tell
Isaac of my own childhood inexperience with communicating and how the
words which made sense in my brain morphed as they came out of my mouth
into something totally surprising and unsuspectingly offensive.

As we considered one another with the mutual admiration shared only by
survivors, we began to get the giggles over the whole thing. Tee . . .
Hee . . . Tee, Hee . . . Haw! . . . Haw, Haw!! Upstairs, the rest of the
family - who had been waiting in great suspense - breathed a sigh of
relief over joy restored, happy resolution of conflict, and
let's-get-on-with-the-vacation smiles all around.

Grace was needed in this situation. God's grace was extended and
received. It is so amazing how His grace in our lives changes one's
perspective. In the book of Colossians, it says this: "Therefore, as the
elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness,
humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and
forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as
Christ forgave you, so you also must do."

You know, parenting provides us with NUMEROUS opportunities to live out
this particular scripture. Whether bloopers, misunderstandings, or larger
infractions, this scripture teaches us how to respond.

Here it is. Giving honor and respect - applying the
"do-unto-others-as-you-would-have-them-do-unto-you" to real-life
parenting - requires an expenditure on our part, a giving of something of
ourselves, an attitude of service, and an attitude of mutual grace. It's
a far cry from using our position to demean, belittle, and indenture our
children.

Blessings,

Diana

A harvest takes time . . .
and effort and patience
and sun and rain
and diligence and love.

So does raising children!

Join Diana Waring in her follow-up to the best-selling homeschool
classic, Beyond Survival. Not meant to be a
how-to-fix-what's-wrong-with-my-teenager book, Reaping the Harvest is a
grace-filled approach to child rearing, using timely principles from
real-life experiences that may help you avoid typical "teenage" behavior.

Diana will gently guide you through some of the hardest parts of
raising your kids and assist you in:
- building lasting relationships with your children
- lovingly mentoring your kids as they mature into
young adults
- reaping the harvest, finally realizing the dream of
the future

Reaping the Harvest is NOW available from your favorite bookseller or
directly from Diana Waring - History Alive! ISBN 1-930514-23-9 -
Paperback - Retail $14.95

Call 302-369-9176 or visit our website at www.dianawaring.com.
Order now and get $3.00 OFF plus FREE SHIPPING!

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Posted by: homenews <homenews@...>

Dear Hope Chest friends,

I thought you all might like to see this! I have a lot of respect for
Diana Waring, and I plan to get her new book, Reaping the Harvest, very
soon! ~~ Virginia

--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Diana Waring - History Alive!" <[email protected]>
Date: 30 Jul 2002 23:23:54 -0000
Subject: Diana Waring's Highly Irregular Newsletter

Dear Friends,

Yes, it's been a long time. Actually, it's been a horrendously long
time! Why no newsletter, you ask? Well, I would beg you to please
extend grace this way - I have been writing the sequel to "Beyond
Survival," traveling around the U.S. and up into Canada for homeschool
conventions, and trying to keep up with my three children. You've been
on my heart, and it is with great excitement that I send out this edition
of my Highly Irregular Newsletter.

If you would care to join me, I would love to share with you an excerpt
from my newest book, Reaping the Harvest, which has just arrived from the
printer! I pray that it would be a chuckle and an encouragement for you
today...

Tacoblivion

One of the most embarrassing memories of my childhood was the night my
parents invited a neighboring couple over for tacos. Now, I have to tell
you that my mom made a mean taco - she was from Texas, after all - and
they were fairly famous around the neighborhood. It was incredibly easy
to eat oneself into oblivion on Mom's tacos, and that is basically what
happened that night. Though I was only about eleven at the time, I ate
six huge tacos with great abandon. Evidently, our visiting neighbors ALSO
ate a significant portion of the delectable entrée.

Later that night, in the manner of days gone by, we walked our
neighbors back to their home, visiting as we ambled. The gracious lady,
our visiting neighbor, made this remark:

"Oh, Joyce, I can not tell you how good those tacos were! You know, I
just made a PIG of myself!!"

In my eleven-year-old brain, I completely agreed with the sentiment of
having made a pig of myself. Unfortunately, my brain was not quite
conversant with HOW one expressed what one thought. What came out of my
mouth was: "Boy, you can say THAT again!!"

Stunned silence. Then gasps of outrage on the part of my parents and
stuttering apologies, while I tried to figure out what had just happened.
Hmmm. A definite doghouse experience.

This incident came back to me vividly when Isaac was eleven. We were
spending a weekend on the coast of Washington, and a fine, convivial
family time it was swimming, beach walking, sandcastle building, and
more. We made sure to also celebrate this mini-vacation by eating
fabulous food fixed in fascinating fashions.

One evening, during dinner, I made a remark that, if I ate much more of
this kind of rich food, I would have to waddle back home. Isaac chimed in
with: "Man, Mom, I was just thinking the same thing!"

Yeow!! Instantly I turned into a fire-breathing, mad-as-a-hatter,
tiger-by-the-tail mother, especially because I had a continuous struggle
with weight gain.

"Isaac, come with me! We are going to have a SERIOUS talk!!"

I was so offended and so hurt by his comment that I could hardly sit
down and have a calm discussion with him. Doing my best, I asked him why
on earth he would try to hurt his mother with such a spiteful comment. He
looked at me in tearful amazement and said: "But, Mom, I wasn't talking
about you . . . I was talking about ME!"

Ah. Well, ahem . . . light bulb flash in the old memory banks.

Slowly, with increasing moment-by-moment understanding, I began to tell
Isaac of my own childhood inexperience with communicating and how the
words which made sense in my brain morphed as they came out of my mouth
into something totally surprising and unsuspectingly offensive.

As we considered one another with the mutual admiration shared only by
survivors, we began to get the giggles over the whole thing. Tee . . .
Hee . . . Tee, Hee . . . Haw! . . . Haw, Haw!! Upstairs, the rest of the
family - who had been waiting in great suspense - breathed a sigh of
relief over joy restored, happy resolution of conflict, and
let's-get-on-with-the-vacation smiles all around.

Grace was needed in this situation. God's grace was extended and
received. It is so amazing how His grace in our lives changes one's
perspective. In the book of Colossians, it says this: "Therefore, as the
elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness,
humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and
forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as
Christ forgave you, so you also must do."

You know, parenting provides us with NUMEROUS opportunities to live out
this particular scripture. Whether bloopers, misunderstandings, or larger
infractions, this scripture teaches us how to respond.

Here it is. Giving honor and respect - applying the
"do-unto-others-as-you-would-have-them-do-unto-you" to real-life
parenting - requires an expenditure on our part, a giving of something of
ourselves, an attitude of service, and an attitude of mutual grace. It's
a far cry from using our position to demean, belittle, and indenture our
children.

Blessings,

Diana

A harvest takes time . . .
and effort and patience
and sun and rain
and diligence and love.

So does raising children!

Join Diana Waring in her follow-up to the best-selling homeschool
classic, Beyond Survival. Not meant to be a
how-to-fix-what's-wrong-with-my-teenager book, Reaping the Harvest is a
grace-filled approach to child rearing, using timely principles from
real-life experiences that may help you avoid typical "teenage" behavior.

Diana will gently guide you through some of the hardest parts of
raising your kids and assist you in:
- building lasting relationships with your children
- lovingly mentoring your kids as they mature into
young adults
- reaping the harvest, finally realizing the dream of
the future

Reaping the Harvest is NOW available from your favorite bookseller or
directly from Diana Waring - History Alive! ISBN 1-930514-23-9 -
Paperback - Retail $14.95

Call 302-369-9176 or visit our website at http://www.dianawaring.com.
Order now and get $3.00 OFF plus FREE SHIPPING!

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