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Teach Your Children Well

But take care so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life;
 make them known to your children and your children’s children—
Deuteronomy 4:9

Teaching Confirmation to 12-15 year old's is challenging. 
Confirmation class isn't cool, its an expectation, spoken or implied. If you ask a confirmand from a previous year about something remembered, you are likely to get a blank stare or an answer they think you want to hear. The teachings have "slipped from their mind".

Moses the Mentor was parked on the edge of the promised land.
He has led Israel through the wilderness where God provided food, water, smoke by day and fire by night. Moses instructs the people to hear and follow the God's decrees and laws and teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Hold fast to the Lord, Moses says. 
Remember and do what you have been taught. Survival in the Promised Land depends on this knowledge.

We are parked on the edge of Covid-19. 
Like a tide that ebbs and flows, the virus ebbs in one place and flows in another. Memories have slipped from our minds. Images of the 1912 pandemic, pictures of children in iron lungs are forgotten because they were unseen by our grandchildren.

Hold fast to the Lord.
It seems to me we need a new hearing of God’s instructions. God's teaching of the decrees and laws promote a vision of a righteous community, a different community that has become a sign of hope.

Hold fast to the Lord. 
Teach your children well so they become radiating signs of God's saving grace. Teach this generation well so when they are parked on the edge of a crisis, they will know salvation comes from the Lord.  

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