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Don’t forget to head over to Anna’s for Wednesdays with Words this week. Love you all!
Wordless Wednesday: Proper Frame for Prayer
From Robinson Crusoe: … I rather prayed to God as under great affliction and pressure of mind, surrounded with danger and in expectation every night of being murthered and devoured before morning; and I must testify from my experience, that a temper of peace, thankfulness, love, and affection is much more the proper frame for…
Wednesdays with Words: Willingly Take Away
We heard two very powerful sermons on Sunday. Our pastors take great care with their preparations and the words they choose to select. In the morning our Associate Pastor has been preaching through The Lord’s Prayer. This week he was preaching on the fifth petition: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” Pastor…
Wednesdays with Words: All Things
During Sunday School, we are studying how the Old Testament and New Testament both testify to Jesus’ divinity. One way is that the writers of the New Testament talk about Jesus as the writers of the Old Testament talked about the one true God. Both parts of scripture use the term “all things” to describe…
Wednesdays with Words: Crowd of Wonders
We have continued to enjoy Robinson Crusoe together as a family. Well, most of us. One of the girls keeps asking when it will get exciting, so we try to explain it to her. I’ve been thinking about wonder in relationship to learning and loving and living a God fearing life recently and couldn’t pass…
Wednesdays with Words: Deliverance
There are gems to be found in a reading from Robinson Crusoe and they always surprise me and make me think. So often we think sin and affliction are inexorably tied together, one and the same. But Defoe cuts those lines so we see clearly that while our affliction may result from our sin, God’s…
Wednesdays with Words: Wonder-tastic
For the past several years one of the words I’ve heard at the homeschool convention is wonder. Cultivating a sense of wonder. Wondering about something. Woner as awe. Teaching children to wonder about their world. Seeing and hearing things that are wonder-ful. But, I don’t think I really picked up on the idea until I…
Wednesdays with Words: The Fullness Thereof
I know that this is a several week old picture and many of you have seen it on my instagram feed already, but these words continue to re-sound in my head. Possibly because it is currently the passage we’re memorizing during Circle Time, but likely because I need to hear them. The earth is the…
Wednesdays with Words: Heart without Words
I apologize that I haven’t commented from last week, soccer season coupled with baseball season is killing me. I will make every attempt to comment on both weeks’ worth of posts as soon as I can. ‘);
Wednesdays with Words: Good Frame of Heart
One of the best things about AmblesideOnline is that we’re always reading amazing things. I marked quotes this week to add to my commonplace book from such diverse reading as Madam How and Lady Why; Poor Richard; and Trial and Triumph. I decided to select the passage from Trial and Triumph. It seems best to go…