I’m re-reading a biography of Amy Carmichael titled “A Chance to Die,” written by Elisabeth Elliot, with my third child’s book group and something different struck me this time in the chapter titled, “The Inescapable Calling.” Amy is riding a gig along a country road one day with a man her family affectionately called “D.O.M.,” […]
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Sisyphus by Titian, 1549 A couple of years ago I heard Dick Keyes speak at a CMI conference I spoke at out here in California. He had two wonderful talks, one on imagination and one on heroes. At the end of one of his talks, he touched on the topic of Christian Tribalism – a
Note: This post was originally published on August 26, 2011 and is being re-posted – because I think we can all afford to hear it again and again. And because I haven’t blogged in a very, very long time… I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say with honesty
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Smart Sept. 2, 2014 My dad gave me one dollar bill ’cause I’m his smartest son,and I swapped it for two shiny quarters ’cause two is more than one! And then I took the quarters and traded them to Loufor three dimes – I guess she don’t know, three’s more then two! Ivanhoe Sept. 16,
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My husband and I finally sat down and watched Les Miserable after hearing many mixed reviews about it. We loved it and blubbered ridiculously together. My favorite scene had to be Jean Valjean’s (Hugh Jackman) turmoil in the church after he is given the candlesticks. His moment of coming to terms with his sin and
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Frescoe of Santa Maria Novella Grab a cup of tea and make sure you have some time carved out before you dig into this one – there’s a lot of reading! Starting with an article by Aimee Natal titled “Charlotte Mason: For Whose Sake?” in which she wrote: After studying Charlotte Mason’s six volumes, a
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As I’ve been focusing this past week on reading, spelling and writing and feeling a bit of the sting from comparing my kids’ progress in these areas to others their age (I should know better!!), I was glad to find the following section in Vol. 6 today. It reminded me to ‘major on the majors’.
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I attended Deani Van Pelt’s workshop at the Childlight conference on Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition and its possible implications for education today and have been chewing on it ever since. Here is a little background on Mason’s Great Recognition in case it is new to you: In 1893, the year following the opening of the
This fresco, The Descent of the Holy Spirit, located in the Spanish Chapel attached to the Church of St. Maria Novella, in Florence was loved greatly by Charlotte Mason. It represented to her a great truth, that “God the Holy Spirit is Himself, personally, the Imparter of knowledge, the Instructor of youth, the Inspirer of
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