Sept. 15, 2013 Newsletter

Today we talked about the Ten Commandments. The children learned about Moses and the covenant with God. The covenant was about how God would protect the Israelites, if they were to follow His commandments. Even though, we are no longer in the time of Moses, the Ten Commandments are still important to us and to God.
We discussed the rules that we follow in school and at home and that rules have negative and positive consequences. As we were talking about these rules, we tied them into the Ten Commandments. I reminded the children that God's Commandments are rules that we need to follow daily and there are also positive and negative consequences. The positive consequences are that if we follow God's Commandments, we will one day meet Him in Heaven. The negative consequences are that if we ignore the Commandments, we make it harder to reach Heaven. But no matter what, God will always be there waiting for us to realize our mistakes and to ask for forgiveness.
God is always there and will never turn His back on us. But it is our choice how we will live our lives. Below you can find a copy of the Ten Commandments that we talked about in class. The Commandments are not the traditional ones from the Bible. Our book does make them a little more basic, so that the children may have an easier time understanding them.
I also read Exodus ch. 19 to the children. This is the chapter, where Moses goes up to Mt. Sinai and is given the Ten Commandments by God. By reading the Bible, the children could take the basic Commandments and put them with the "real" Ten Commandments.