Quiz Book just for You

Later this year I have a new book coming out called The Christian Girl's Guide to Me: The Quizbook. It has 25 quizzes with titles like:
Are You a Good Loser?
Follow, Lead or Stay at Home?
Are You Clothes Crazy?
Are You Content?
What Does Your Room Say about You?

Besides 25 quizzes written just for girls like you, there are puzzles, crafts, stories and activities. This book will be fun to do alone, but will be much more fun shared with a friend.

Here's one of the quizzes (but when you see it in the book it'll have drawings and lots of fun activities with it)

Are You a Good Loser?

   Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might... (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

   It's fun to win, but it's not much fun to lose!  However, it's important for you to be both a good winner and a good loser. It's all about attitude. The key is to have a good attitude at all times no matter what happens. How well do you do at that? Take the quiz below to find out. Read each question and then circle the letter in front of the answer that sounds most like what you would do.

 1. Middle school cheerleading tryouts are taking place. It's your turn and you're doing great. Just as you do your final jump, your foot slips and you fall. What do you do?

A. Get up, smile, and finish.

B. Blame whoever was supposed to clean the floor.

C. Leave the floor and hope the judges liked the rest of your routine.

2. You arrive early at the science fair and discover that you won the grand prize. Then you notice that the girl who always teases you for being slowest in PE didn't place at all. What do you do when she walks in?

A. Find one good thing about her project to compliment her for.

B. Say, "Ha! You might be better in PE but I aced you in the science fair."

C. Ignore her and spend time with your friends, enjoying your moment of fame.

3. Your girls’ basketball team is playing a team known for fouling. You've been elbowed several times. But then you come down from a rebound and hit one of their players in the head with your elbow. What do you say?

A. “Oops, sorry.”

B. “Move next time.”

C. Nothing.

4. You and another band member are playing a duet at the city competition. You don't place well. What do you say?

A. Maybe if I practice more I'll do better next time.

B. Maybe if you would have practiced we'd have done better.

C. I guess the judge thought we didn’t  play well.

5. You pride yourself on being a good writer. You place second in an essay contest. When you read the essay that beat yours what do you think?

A. That's a really well-written essay.

B. Mine should have won.

C. I wish I had won.

How did you do?

If you had mostly A's, you are a good sport! You like to win, but you accept it when you lose. You try to congratulate the winner. And if you are the winner, you make sure to say something nice to the loser. Way to go!

If you had mostly B's, you need to practice your sportsmanship skills! We'd all like to win but that rarely happens. Don't blame others when you lose. Just determine to do better the next time. And when you win, do it graciously not rudely. Real winners have good attitudes!

If you had mostly C's, you aren't a poor sport, but you're not really a good sport, either. Go a step further and compliment the winner, or if you are the winner, say something nice to the loser. It's good to be able to both win and lose well.

New Book

Hi. This is Kathy. And if this is Tuesday, then I am driving from the Florida panhandle where I live now to the Indiana/Michigan border where I grew up.


So I'm writing this post on Sunday evening, and setting it to post on Tuesday.


I thought I'd tell you about a new book I have coming out with Legacy hopefully later this year. It's a quizbook with all kinds of quizzes like
"What Ice Cream Flavor are You?"
"Are You a Mary or a Martha/"
"What's Your Serving Style"
"What Color are You?"
"How Honest are You?"
and so on.

It's going to be a fun book full of quizzes, but it also has stories, activities, puzzles and crafts/

Here's a sample quiz from the book:


Are You for Real?

     God tells us that we shouldn't just hear his Word but we should live it out. That means we need to put our faith in practice everyday. Do you live your faith? Are you the real thing? Take the quiz below to find out. Read each situation. Then decide whether that's what you would do, what you might do or no way would you do it. Circle the correct answer. Be honest!

     1.  You plan to read your Bible before you go to bed, but by time you get home from

         shopping with your mom, you're really tired. You think about putting it off until the

         next day, but change your mind and read your Bible even though you're tired.

            This is what I would do.       I might do this.            No way would I do this.

     2.  A friend asks you to pray for her grandma. You know if you don't write it down

         you'll forget, so you write down the prayer request and pray for it each day.

This is what I would do.       I might do this.            No way would I do this.

     3.  You hear that one of your friends said something about you that isn't true. You

       want to say some mean stuff about her too. But you decide that you should talk to her

       and ask her if she really said untrue things about you and talk it out with her.

            This is what I would do.       I might do this.            No way would I do this.

     4.  A girl is sitting alone at lunch. You feel bad for her because she's always alone.

         You have so much fun sitting with your friends. You decide to ask her to join you

         so she can meet your friends and have fun at lunch too.

            This is what I would do.       I might do this.             No way would I do this.

     5.  Your family is on their way home from your grandma's house Saturday evening

          when you get a flat. You get home really late so your dad says you can skip church

         the next day if you want to. You tell him it's okay, you can catch up on your sleep

         later.

            This is what I would do.       I might do this.             No way would I do this.

     Which sentence did you circle the most?

     If you circled "This is what I would do" the most-- and you were honest about it, you're right on target. Your faith is real to you and you live it everyday.

    If you circled "I might do this" the most, you're missing the mark when it comes to putting your faith in action. Stop and think of some ways that you can let the love of Jesus shine through you. Maybe you can invite someone to sit with you at lunch. Or perhaps you can offer to help a student with math. Write down some ideas and try them out. 

     If you circled "No way would I do this" the most, you're off target when it comes to putting your faith in action. You forget to let Jesus shine through you to others. Ask God to help you be more real about your faith. Look for ways to reach out to others at school, in your neighborhood and at home this week.

God Connection: Have you ever looked in the mirror? Of course you have! You probably look in the mirror every morning to check your hair and face before going to school, church, or out to play. What would you do if you see you have some food on your face or you see that your hair isn't combed? Do you just walk away and forget about it? No. You fix it.

     God's word is like a mirror. When we read it, we see things that need fixed in our lives. We

 might see that we aren't as kind as we should be. We might find that we need to be more honest or help more at home. If you just forget what you learn from the Bible, it's like seeing messy hair in the mirror and doing nothing about it.

     Even if you don't fix the problem, and forget what you look like, others don't. And God doesn't either. Use God's mirror to help you have beautiful heart and live out your faith.