Author: tentalents

May 18, 2023 Melissa Valerio   Let’s take a lesson from the ant. Besides being a nuisance, they can actually teach us something very profound. Ants live and work together in a team called a colony. You’ve got the Queen, the drones (males), soldiers, and workers. Interestingly, all of them need each other in order […]

May 15, 2023 Melissa Valerio   My 6th grade science teacher was very……  interesting. She taught well, but always had an eccentric side that bordered on insanity. Like the one time she wanted to teach us the process of purification by condensation. She said that any liquid could be turned into purified water by evaporation and […]

May 11, 2023 Melissa Valerio   My kids are fascinated with mansions. “Can we live in a mansion one day?” my 8-year-old, Ryan, will occasionally ask. And of course, here is the perfect opportunity for me to teach how the houses here on Earth don’t necessarily bring you happiness just because they’re big or fancy. […]

May 8, 2023 Melissa Valerio   Who here hasn’t watched the Twilight saga movies? Edward Cullen, the handsome vampire, falls in love with Bella Swan, the shy human introvert that just moved into town from Arizona. It’s love at first sniff for Edward, and Bella soon follows suit, but the problem is… he’s a vampire […]

May 4, 2023 Melissa Valerio   James 5:13-16    “Is anyone among you suffering? He should keep on praying about it. And those who have reason to be thankful should continually be singing praises to the Lord. Is anyone sick? He should call for the elders of the church and they should pray over him […]

May 1, 2023 Melissa Valerio   I read the sweetest article yesterday. It was about an organization called Dream on 3 who made the dream of a young girl living with down syndrome a reality. Her dream was to meet the Alabama gymnastics team, and this organization made it possible. Then, taking a look at […]

April 27, 2023 Melissa Valerio   I love to cook and bake. Ever since I was a child, I have loved putting ingredients together and forming all kinds of things. Recipes delighted me! I thought it was so neat that you could put all these random ingredients together and produce a delicious tasting meal that […]

April 24, 2023 Melissa Valerio   When I was in 1st grade, there was a classmate of mine that had the cutest little erasers. All different shapes, kinds, and colors. Hearts, stars, a sun, a cow, a little pig. They were the cutest little things! My family was too poor to afford novelties like that. […]

April 20, 2023 Melissa Valerio   Life with my autistic daughter is very interesting. And very loud! She has a default way of handling disappointments — to yell and scream her frustration at everyone around her. Sometimes when she gets in her mood, I have to shut my ears off until she’s ready to listen […]

April 17, 2023 Melissa Valerio   People need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed – Samuel Johnson    The last 3 verses of the last chapter of Genesis read like this: “Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up […]