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Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Give Me A Hearing Heart, Lord

The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught. Isaiah 50:4 (NIV 1984) My personal ‘Morning Time’ starts as I wake up, reach for The Cloud of Witness on my bedside table and read the day’s selection. Arise, my soul, and sing his praises! I will awaken the dawn with my worship, greeting the daybreak with my songs of Continue Reading…
November 6, 2018
Educational Philosophy
The Art of Belonging: Nature (Part 3)

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between Continue Reading…
October 8, 2018
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
The Art of Belonging (Part 2)

Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It’s neither, my friend, neither. It’s number one … In a little community like ours, my dear, … we have a general number one; that is, you can’t consider yourself as number one without considering me too as the same, and all the other young people. – Fagin in Oliver Twist [dropcap]W[/dropcap]elcome back! In the first instalment of this series I wrote about our family’s ongoing journey Continue Reading…
August 14, 2018
Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
The Art of Belonging (Part I)

Jesus gave us a model for living a connected life. He said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbour as yourself. (Luke 10:27) [dropcap]O[/dropcap]ur family spent over twenty years living abroad because of the development work my husband does. Our first assignment, as a newly married couple, was in the picturesque Sibiu, Romania. We arrived there a year Continue Reading…
July 5, 2018