S.s. noah grapevine: The S S Noah | Grapevine TX
Preschool & Child Care in Grapevine, TX
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2701 Ira East Woods Avenue, Grapevine, TX 76051
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Grapevine, TX’s Choice Child Care Program
Lionheart Children’s Academy stands as a leading child care program that builds self-confidence, creativity, and developmental growth in the children we serve. We understand your need for compassionate, nurturing child care and we’re happy to provide a program that will help your child bloom into a happy, healthy, and well-adjusted student. Our staff is fully licensed and certified in early childhood education and we have a commitment to providing loving, nurturing care for babies, toddlers, and elementary age children. We offer an exciting, engaging early childhood education that helps children improve their social skills, motor skills, and self-confidence. Find out more by visiting our church campus in Grapevine, TX today.
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Compassionate Child Care
Our infant child care program provides a welcoming Christian environment where your baby can grow from a bundle of joy to a bundle of curiosity. Our staff provides nurturing child development activities focused on creating experiences that invite exploration to support the rapid cognitive development taking place in these formative years.
Your child’s day is filled with activities that incorporate creativity, discovery, and building self-confidence.
Our program includes:
- Creative Curriculum (TM) for infants and toddlers
- Bible stories and songs
- Gross motor and fine motor development
- Language development
- Sensory play
- Art and more!
See Your Child Thrive and Develop
At Lionheart Children’s Academy, we believe children experience the world through supportive exploration and in doing so, understand their own self-worth. Our signature child care program not only offers compassionate care and guidance, but we also provide hands-on learning activities, social engagements, and learning through play that will help your child to develop cognitively, emotionally, and improve their motor skills.
Our program’s goals include:
- Social/Emotional Development: awareness of self and others
- Physical Development: learning about movement
- Cognitive Development: learning about the world
- Language Development: learning how to communicate
- Spiritual Development: learning about God’s great love for them
Our staff is fully trained and certified in CPR, early childhood education, and has been thoroughly vetted.
We have a passion for seeing children of all ages grow and develop physically, emotionally, spiritually, and cognitively and we’re happy to make accommodations for special requests. Contact us today for more information. Call or visit us in Grapevine, TX today.
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Pockets of Learning are Books of Knowledge and Fun | The Giggle Guide®
Pockets of Learning from Soft Skills Learning Products offers a full line of uniquely designed, educational fabric toys that are heirloom quality, made to last through generations of repeated play.
These fabric toys can withstand the love and rigors of several siblings and will hold up as they hold a child’s interest. The toys and gifts can be personalized and make cherished gifts for children from birth to age 5. My Quiet Book is one of Pockets of Learning’s best sellers, along with the Lullaby and Goodnight Book and Right at Home Book in which the child helps each little animal find its home.
Pockets of Learning’s soft toy play sets are recommended for ages 2 and up; they come filled with soft, safe, cloth pieces that can be personalized for a keepsake gift. Mother Goose Doll set is a classic favorite, full of beloved nursery rhymes in a beautifully embroidered setting. Matching toys for each rhyme are hidden in a special pocket nearby. Six miniature “books” are hidden among Mother Goose’s wings.
The enchanting Medieval Castle play set captures a child’s imagination. The castle door opens to reveal a king, a queen, a magical dragon, a wizard and 2 removable knights on horses.
The S.S. Noah play set features a colorful ark with storage pockets for 18 animals and a handle that’s ready to set sail. The bottom door opens and the animals “2 by 2” go marching in. The set teaches children the story of Noah while learning matching and pairs. Other available soft play sets include: Tea Party Set, Tool Box, Bunny House, Snakey Skill Building Puppet and Pirate Treasure Chest.
The interactive fabric books provide activities on every page for hours of learning fun. Each handcrafted book is a soft-sided, zippered carry bag with padded handles. Pockets of Learning’s expert sewers display their talents on every page. Multiple pieces and characters store neatly inside their own pocket and are replaceable if lost.
The Quiet Book is a continual best seller and children can button a button, snap a snap or learn to tie a shoe. The new edition Quiet Book now has all pieces tethered, so there are no lost pieces! Other fabric books in the line include: My ABC Animal Train, Christian Celebrations, In The Beginning Book and The Jewish Holiday Book.
The traditional fun of paper dolls with the elegance of fine fabrics come together in the Dr. Toy Award winning Press ‘n Dress Fabric Doll Set that features a slightly padded 12.5” fabric doll and 5 stylish outfits with Velcro backing that store in the fancy embroidered carry case.
Pockets of Learning’s Wall Hangings include holiday themed Advent Calendars, Manger Sets and Hanukkah Festival of Lights among the classic Alphabet, Hebrew Alphabet, Kinder To-Do’s, Bunny Pajama Bag and Growth Chart.
For more information, visit www.pocketsoflearning.com
Grapevine: why it is depicted on the walls of temples
September 14, 2020
Cyrillic
Surely many have noticed images of the vine on the inner walls of churches, as well as on iconostases and icon cases. Perhaps some have decided that this is a common element of decor. However, in reality this is far from the case. Every detail in the church and religious paraphernalia has its own secret meaning.
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Christ the Vine
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During the famous Last Supper, Jesus, calling his Father “the Husbandman” and himself “the vine”, addressed the apostles with the following words: “…you are the branches; Whoever abides in Me and I in him bears much fruit” (John 15:1, 5). Such a comparison in the speech of Christ became the basis for numerous images of this plant on the walls of churches, paraphernalia and icons. Artists and icon painters often painted the Savior, surrounded by branches of grapes, framed by the same shoots – his disciples, often the Virgin and John the Baptist.
In addition, in some works Christ appears with a vine growing from his side. He holds a ripe bunch of grapes in his hands, squeezing the juice from the berries into a bowl. As you know, wine is also made in a similar way. But it is this drink that is one of the main elements of the church sacrament called the Eucharist, when wine turns into the blood of Jesus.
Therefore, where there is an image of a vine, you can also see birds pecking at grapes. This is the rite of Communion and Christians who receive the Body and Blood of Christ.
The vine is also mentioned in other religious texts. In the New Testament, this plant appears as a symbol of paradise, in the Old Testament – the promised land. After all, it was a plentiful harvest at that time that was considered the most important sign of wealth, or at least prosperity. “… The Lord is leading you to a good land, to a land where streams of water, springs and lakes come out of valleys and mountains, to a land where wheat, barley, vines …” (Book of Deuteronomy 8: 7-9).
When, after the flood, Noah began to settle in new territories, the first thing, according to the Bible, he planted grapes. According to legend, the vine was brought by the waters from the Garden of Eden itself, Eden. By the way, this story also mentions for the first time the wine that Noah invented and, drunk, appeared before his sons not in the best light (Gen.
9:20-27) .
“Sodom” grapes
Grapes are a fairly common symbol in religion. More than once he appears before the readers of the Bible in other episodes of church literature. For example, the cupbearer, who told Joseph about his dream, spoke specifically about the vine (Genesis 40:9). And in the prophecy about Judas, this plant is also present, which is again interpreted as a sign of wealth and prosperity (Genesis 49:11).
However, the Holy Scripture also mentions poisonous grapes, which is called “Sodomite” in the text of Deuteronomy (Deut. 32:32). Sodom grapes, according to St. Maximus the Confessor, personifies unreason, from which he builds to abstain. However, it is also necessary to avoid dried grapes (raisins), that is, old anger.
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Vine… What is the most ancient drink of the earth? | The world around us
Admiring the play of amber or ruby wine in a glass, you always involuntarily ask yourself the question – what is the origin of this noble drink? Although you understand that its history goes back far into the depths of millennia.
Maybe someone accidentally forgot a bunch of grapes in a small earthenware pot where, after lying for several days, fermented grape juice became a joyous drink for the first time in history? There is a hypothesis that about 40 thousand years ago the first “homo sapiens” – Cro-Magnons – who lived in the oases of Central Asia, invented a drink, the raw material for which was juice squeezed from the fruits of wild grapes and collected in stone containers.
The vine itself is one of the oldest cultivated plants on earth, and archaeologists prove that in the same Central Asia, Sumer, Assyria, Babylon, the first farmers first began to set up vineyards near their homes, and then gradually began to select.
It is believed that grapes were brought to China from the West – from Samarkand, Persia, Tibet, Kashgar, Khami.
Not only archaeologists, but also linguists testify to the very long history of the vine, since the words “grapes”, “vine”, “wine” existed in one of the most ancient languages - Sanskrit, as well as in Greek, Latin, French, Chinese , ancient Egyptian and ancient Persian.
There are many legends about who owns the laurels of the discoverers of wine. The famous oriental poet, philosopher and mathematician Omar Khayyam in his book “Navruz-name” claims that the first wine was prepared in Herat, which is located on the territory of modern Afghanistan.
According to the myths of ancient Greece, the god of wine was Dionysus, he traveled the world and taught how to make an intoxicating miraculous drink – wine. Dionysus was noisy, so he was also called Bacchus – crazy.
The palm in the invention of wine is also attributed to the famous queen Semiramis, who lived almost 2500 years ago in Mesopotamia, and the Persian king Yemmed, and the biblical Noah, who came up with the idea of planting a vine and squeezing juice from its fruits after the following incident.
Once, after releasing his goat into the wild, Noah saw that the animal, having eaten the fruits of wild grapes, became drunk and began to fight with other animals. Seeing this, Noah planted a vine next to the dwelling, watered it with the blood of a lion and a ram, in order to give strength to the grapes and “domesticate” it.
Among all peoples who have left behind written sources or oral traditions, the vine and winemaking occupy a special, honorable place.
In the Roman Empire, wine was consumed daily by all inhabitants. In the 1st century AD, there were more than 80 varieties of wine. The Tsekub wine was highly valued, which the famous Horace sang in his ode. Already in antiquity, the healing and healing effect of wine was noticed. The great philosopher Plato called it “the milk of the elderly”, that is, a product very useful for maintaining youth. The “father of medicine” Hippocrates also distinguished wines by their properties and, therefore, their purpose. And Celsius in his essay on healing gives various information about wines and recipes for flavoring them. It highlights the famous honey-grape wine. Having conquered Europe, the Romans brought the culture of wine into it. After some time, Germans, Gauls, Iberians and ancient Celts got acquainted with wine.
It is safe to say that the richest variety of soil and microclimate, and consequently, grape varieties, is found in France.
Therefore, there are almost all sorts of wines here. In this regard, since the Middle Ages, in France, winemaking has been developed almost everywhere. There were especially many vineyards on the banks of the rivers. Wines from Normandy and Picardy have always been valued. Even the kings and dukes of Burgundy planted vineyards.
In ancient Germany, wine was a rarity, considered a luxury, and viticulture was not widely spread. But already in the Middle Ages, wines from Germany became known throughout Europe.
Speaking about the history of world winemaking, it would be unfair not to mention sunny Spain. The culture of grapes in Spain began to develop thanks to the rule of the Moors. In the XII century, the Arab scholar Gu-Albavam wrote a manual on viticulture and winemaking, which became very popular in Spain.
In the medieval East, in particular in Central Asia, winemaking was practically stopped, however, despite the prohibitions, wine continued to be included in most healing potions. So, the great Abu Ali ibn Sina not only considered wine from a medical point of view, but also glorified it in his gazelles. Many quatrains of Eastern poets and scientists – Beruni, Omar Khayyam, Hafiz, Babur, Alisher Navoi, Mashrab, Nodira – are dedicated to the praise of wine, which helps to overcome sadness and enjoy life. Praises to wine were a bold enough form of freethinking, expressed by them with all frankness.
There is also blessed Georgia, which simply cannot be imagined without its vineyards. The vine is called sacred there, and traditions of drinking wine have existed for millennia. Georgia is famous for several dozen varieties of wine that have absorbed and conveyed to us the legends of the past, taste, smell and sunlight.
Healing air, the charm of mountains covered with emerald meadows, the swiftness and purity of seething streams – the main wine varieties of Georgia grow in such an atmosphere.
According to the International Organization of Viticulture and Winemaking in Paris, the total area of vineyards in the world is about 10 million hectares. In Europe – about 72%, in Asia – 13%, in America – 9%, in Africa – 5%, in Australia and Oceania – 1%. 21 states are considered countries of developed viticulture, while viticulture is the main branch of all fruit and berry production. Of the total grape harvest, 10% is consumed fresh, 6% is used for drying, and the remaining 84% is processed into wine.
To understand what Wine is, it is worth tasting wine at least once, really high-class wine.