Word of the Day: Repent and Repentance
repent
re-pent / ri-ˈpent
verb
1. to turn from sin and better oneself
To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.
Frederick William Robertson, 1816-1853
2. to feel regretful or contrite over past actions
To spend the night in anger is better than to spend it repenting.
Senegalese Proverb
repentance
re-pen-tance / ri-ˈpen-tᵊn(t)s
noun
1. the act of regretting past wrongs and turning from sin
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.
Traditional Proverb
Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club. In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year. They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students. Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project. They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study. Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.
