We sang “O Worship the King” during Circle Time the other day and I realized that it was what was reverberating in my mind this week, particularly the end of the fourth verse: Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, in you do we trust, nor find you to fail. Your mercies, how tender,…
We’ve been enjoying a “consecutive reading” of Romans during morning worship and when this passage was read, I couldn’t stop hearing the italicized passage. I know this – you know this – but Paul surrounds it with such a logical building that it took on new significance and took my breath away. But if you…
For Today… Monday, March 23, 2015 Outside my window… it is cold and grey and sad looking for the third day of spring. I am thinking… it should not snow today, even if it’s predicted. I am thankful… for Netflix when I have a sick girl and a boy who had a tooth pulled this morning. I am…
Two that go together from Karen Glass in Consider This. “The proper nourishment for a living mind — the only thing which will allow the mind to reach its full potential is a diet of ideas … appetizing and varied …” pg 69 “Everything that a person learns becomes a part of himself, and as…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… it’s still dark. But that dark that makes you know the sun shall soon be appearing over the edge of the horizon I am thinking… about Reveling in the Classics. I thought this was a great guest-post in my learning about reveling. Jennifer Dow at Expanding Wisdom did a great job!…
I am really, really excited about this month’s guest post. Jennifer Dow, who blogs at Expanding Wisdom has written about ‘Reveling in the Classics.’ A part of my vocation as a Classical Christian Educator is to teach my children to wrestle with and understand classic literature. I have learned -I keep learning- how my attitudes…
This week was odd. It started out wonderfully! We had a really good Monday, and accomplished everything we had planned. Including two science experiments about air pressure: water in a cup and a piece of paper and using suction cups. We also, finally, got to play outside a good portion of the day as the…
I have been reading Alan Jacobs’ excellent book, The Narnian, off and on for a year now. Actually, more off than on which is why I haven’t finished it. Don’t let that deter you, though, because it is really very good and very readable. Friday night, I had two and a half hours at basketball…
In the past month I’ve been thinking about Keeping and Not Keeping. Or perhaps rather, “Keepable” and “Not Keepable.” I am by nature a keeper. Mostly a keeper of things, I have many things that I’ve inherited or been given. There are a number of wedding gifts I can tell you today who gave them…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… the sun is rising. The clouds are rose pink and light orange and yellow. Lovely. I am thinking… about love as a verb; as a choice; as a means of bonding a people together. But neither the emotion nor the verb that has co-opted the Biblical meaning. I am thankful… for the faithful…