The Psalmist here tells us that we become like that which we make and then worship. “Those who make idols become like them …” If the idol is oneself – where we stare into a mirror and gaze at ourselves – we become flat and constrained. If we’re focused on the “what we do,” it’s…
As I read Norms and Nobility by David Hicks, one of the ways he defines things is by prescriptive and descriptive. Prescriptive ideas are the “thou shalt” (or “thou shalt not”). They’re prescribing a certain way, a specific activity, like a doctor prescribes a medicine. Descriptive ideas are describing (tautology? Perhaps). They describe how things…
This morning was our last Morning Time. Well, the last with my two oldest children; one is graduating, the other is dual enrolling starting in the fall. Which means I’ll get to find out about Morning Time with an “only.” That will be a fun adventure. For two years, in the Lord’s Providence. And, then,…
I chose keep for 2023 largely because it was all over the Psalms, particularly my reading of Psalm 119. It’s over and over and over again. Keep your law, keep your testimonies, keep statutes, keep my way … 27! Twenty Seven times in Psalm 119 we are told to keep … something. But, even already,…
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Do you have a Word for the Year for 2023? Have you started considering how you’re going to approach it, think about it, implement it? Have you ever done a Word for the Year before? Was it a helpful exercise? Why or why not? My word for 2023 is going to be “keep” … I…
Mote audiobooks than maybe I’d prefer, but what a great year of reading.
I do know that it’s Thursday, but I read all of these on Wednesday and I need to make a little more sense of them, so adding them here in one big post … well, this is the way. The books are talking. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 2, Chapter 6 (pg 341)…
Well, for our homeschool. Perhaps one of the best known posts on my blog is Aligning your Academic Year with the Calendar Year. I’m really proud of that post and of the time we’ve been able to do just that – follow our own year and school year round. Unfortunately over the last year “school…