Get Ready

Hello my dear student! How are you doing lately? It’s another semester! Few days from now this year 2021 ends! Thank God we have reached this far by overcoming a lot of challenges! Before anything else, let’s tune in ourselves to God. Our key text is found in: “Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.” Proverbs 31:30

Queen Esther was the most beautiful of all the maidens in the land, but her beauty was more than skin deep. Esther also feared the Lord, and that is really why she “obtained favour in the sight of all who saw her.” (Esther 2:15)

This remind me of another old legend. Nobody seems to know where it came from, but it illustrates our text very well. Once upon a time, there were three girls who were always quarrelling about which one had the most beautiful hands. The first one dipped her hands in the clear, sparkling water of a running brook and said, “She how beautiful my hands are! My hands are the most beautiful!”

The second girl gathered berries till her hands were pink, just as though an artist had painted them. “See how pink my hands are!” she said. “My hands are the most beautiful.”

The third girl walked among the flowers and picked the roses till her hands smelled like perfume. “She how fragrant my hands smell,” she said “My hands are the most beautiful.” Now, there was another girl with them, but she never argued with the others, because she didn’t think her hands were beautiful at all. Well, one day a wrinkled old woman came along. She looked like a beggar. She asked the girls for something to eat. The three girls who were always quarrelling about their beautiful hands put their hands behind their backs and said they had nothing to give her. But the fourth girl gave the woman a chair, then ran inside and brought her some bread and milk. Then a wonderful thing happened. The poor old woman smiled and changed into an angel! Turning to the other girls, the angel said, “It is not the hands that are dipped into the brook, nor the hands that are painted with berries, nor the hands that are fragrant with perfume that are the most beautiful, but the kind hands that give to the poor.”

The story may be only a legend, but what the angel said is true. That was the secret of Esther’s beauty. Her heart was filled with sweetness, goodness, kindness and love. Would you like to be beautiful? Truly beautiful? Try filling your heart with sweetness, goodness, kindness, and love for God and others; then see what happens!

Most Essential Learning Competency: By the end of this two-week lesson, you will be able to:

Demonstrate of an understanding of social sciences and applied social sciences.

Performance indicator: Imagine yourself that you are already a professional and you wanted to settle in marriage. Then you are going to make journal entry about the different ways to become responsible in a relationship.

Enabling Competencies: Foundation to accomplishing the MELCS, these competencies need to be learned. You have to:

1. Clarify the relationships and differences between social sciences and applied social science. HUMSS_DIASS12-Ia-1

2. Cite the differences among applied social sciences. HUMSS_DIASS12-Ia-2