See Spot Run

Be the Light, Being the salt, Boldness, Encouragement, Good News, Witnessing 1 Minute

Fun with Dick and Jane books came out in 1930. They were created for elementary school readers to bring forth a new format the help children read better. The repetitive texts and illustrations for the Dick and Jane primers were intended to work together to help young readers understand the story they were reading.

Many of the stories involve simple actions. See Spot run. Go Jane go.

In other words, a verb.

A verb is a word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence. Almost every sentence requires a verb, or else nothing happens!

Now any of you who have read my blogs for awhile, know I love math and numbers. So I am stepping out of my comfort zone here.

But I read this the other day and it was too good not to share the simple beauty of this use of a verb.

Christianity is meant to be a verb.

We need to be active in showing our faith, in order to be the salt and the light to the hurting world.

We need to shine, love, hope, run (our race), go, be, do, and so many, many more.

There, now if that doesn’t show my use of the English language is getting more better, I don’t know what will.

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25 thoughts on “See Spot Run”

  10. I’m thinking that’s whats been missing in Christianity. The verb (action). I’m not going to lie. I got discouraged with God’s people cause the verb was missing. All that was in place was the noun, but the noun without the verb is useless. In other words being a Christian is pointless without the love, compassion, forgiveness etc. You know the action part. Thank you for this. It was simple, yet powerful at the same time.

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  12. Well said – The “See Spot & Jane” books are how my parents learned to speak, read, and write the English language when they immigrated to the US after WWII from the Netherlands. Our generation also used them in elementary school to learn to read.

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  13. ….. you love math and numbers

    E = mc2, a simple and beautiful expression.

    Christianity is meant to be a verb, a simple and beautiful expression

    There’s truth in simplicity and beauty.

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