Homeschooling, Life

A Season of Silence

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: …a time to keep silence, and a time to speak…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1&7)  . This summer, has evidently, been a time to keep silence here on the blog.  It has been a season of learning…reading, listening, searching, convicting, confirming, and pondering…quietly.  . Not that there hasn’t been …

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Homeschooling, Quotes

Food for Thought

“We should allow no separation to grow up between the intellectual and ‘spiritual’ life of children; but should teach them that the divine Spirit has constant access to their spirits, and is their continual helper in all the interests, duties and joys of life.”   ~Charlotte Mason (as quoted in For the Children’s Sake, by Susan Schaeffer  Macaulay, pg. 64)

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Homeschooling, Mommyhood, Thinking Biblically

Of Speeches and Students

Tomorrow, President Obama is scheduled to speak to the nation’s school children.  This speech has not yet taken place, and already Christians are lining up on both sides of the argument, ready to battle and accuse one another because of it.   I have been surprised at the reactions, the harsh words, accusations, and demands coming from both sides of …

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