By Grace

I went to the children’s home again leo, By Grace. I organized and replenished their medicine cabinet, played with the kitten, and played with the children. In the afternoon, we went across the road to the field for games. It was basically just a big grassy grazing area.

I was also taught by one boy how to make, what he calls ‘mats’. It’s basically a place mat (or blanket if it’s big enough) made from yarn. He uses four pieces of wood nailed into a square. Then for the small ones, there are seven nails nailed part way into each board all around the edge. The yarn is looped around those nails to make the pattern.



Then after this (you make 8 loops around each set of nails opposite each other), beginning in one corner, you tie yarn at each corner of the squares made to make the pattern.

Someone from a church also came and did a Bible study for them. He was talking about the creation story, and he had three points…not quite sure how they really tied in. The first was just for itemize what God made on the 1-6th days and that God what He had created was perfect and good, and He gave humans dominion over His creation. The second point is the one I am not too sure about. To me it seemed more like he was giving the ‘correct Christian answer’ rather than Biblical fact. He stated that, “God created everything because of/through Jesus Christ.” Hmmm…now, from what I know this doesn’t make sense. At the time of creation, what God created was perfect (Adam and Eve were not even embarrassed to be naked), so there was no need salvation or a savior (i.e. Jesus). Therefore, because the necessity of Jesus was not yet created/developed, how could God have created everything through Jesus Christ, who was not yet ‘invented’ because there was not yet a need for him. It was not until well after the Fall, when people were really running a muck that God determined the need for a savior…that is when Jesus came about. So I don’t think it was creation that was created through Jesus Christ, but rather salvation. The third point was that the creation demonstrates God’s power. No argument there.