Cultivating a Love for Learning

First trip to the Library - Right when you turned three months old

From the very beginning, we have enjoyed reading books to you.  You seem to really enjoy it too!  At first you would just sit and listen intently to the voices reading to you and sometimes look at the pages.  Now you have grown to particularly enjoy rhyming schemes and bright colors.  You especially love to hear Mama attempt many different tongue twisters.  Sometimes you smile and coo when Mama stumbles over her words and tries again.  It is so much fun to see you learn and grow!  God has created you and knit you together.  Psalm 139:14 "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well." You have so much personality, and of course we think you are the cutest baby ever.
Our desire is to cultivate in you a love for learning.  But the most important learning is gaining a knowledge of the Holy.  Once God gets a hold on your heart, the desire to learn more about Him and His attributes and character is life changing!  It overtakes and supercedes any other knowledge.  The knowledge of material and earthly things is temporal.  It will not last.  1 Cor. 13:8-10 "Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away."
So the most important things that we desire to teach you are the things of God.  We yearn for you to come to a full understanding of God's truth and to experience His saving power from your own fleshly and sinful nature.  We want to celebrate learning and a desire for knowledge, especially when truth is being poured into your soul.  What joy to see you, even at this young age, settle down upon the reciting of scripture or the singing of a treasured hymn.  We look forward to seeing you grow and learn so much more.