<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Alveary Grove]]></title><description><![CDATA[African Miss Mason]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:47:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.africanmissmason.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Art Of Belonging in Community (Part I)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Medieval city of Sibiu, Romania [Photo by  Camil Ghircoias ,  license ] Jesus provided us with a model for living a connected life.  He...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/the-art-of-belonging-in-community-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">689b46224030d729e52f3d3f</guid><category><![CDATA[community]]></category><category><![CDATA[encouragement]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:38:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_77704c9709e9460bad1a1a3d2b73fb5f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_723,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers Can Work Wonders]]></title><description><![CDATA[OF HOMERS AND HEROES (Originally published in Common Place Quarterley's  'Character(s) To Live By' column) I am constantly encouraged by mothers who are creative over-comers in the face of seemingly insurmountable situations. Where an overwrought mother says, "IMPOSSIBLE!" Charlotte Mason says we can work wonders when we know that wonders are required of us (V.1. p. 44). Don't you love the faith Charlotte had in mothers? She envisioned women who know that the Lord is their chosen portion and...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/mothers-can-work-wonders</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67a5f6303584de7563828425</guid><category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:40:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_4680e8f4ce9347aeb27a154ea7135056~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give Me A Hearing Heart, Lord]]></title><description><![CDATA["The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/give-me-a-hearing-heart-lord</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67120b18dbdf4c05eafc3f55</guid><category><![CDATA[mother culture]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:08:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_99b99865501b49cea2ccbd3bf812ed95~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_683,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["Margin-Making is an Act of Faith"]]></title><description><![CDATA[I can't shake off the thought that we must step away from life's busyness and find solitude and silence. Everywhere I turn, I hear people lamenting the noise and busyness of life, and maybe I need to keep speaking (and writing) about these ideas.   A couple of weeks ago, our little Figs community group discussed a newsletter from S. D. Smith of Green Ember fame. (If you haven't read this series with your kiddos, sign up for his newsletter now, and you'll get a free copy of the first...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/margin-making-is-an-act-of-faith</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65f828bdbb7c4c57ac09fe19</guid><category><![CDATA[mother culture]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:27:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_94e589d0f9724cf286617518c0d83004~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Art of Notebooking - A Study in Quietness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Girl at a Window by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson The Lenten season is here, and several one-hundred-day projects are happening across the web¹. I will do contemplative reading and notebooking using Laurie Bestvater's Studying to be Quiet: One Hundred Days of Keeping. Laurie likens this...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/the-art-of-notebooking-a-study-in-quietness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65cf2040f48d21ef1f752e55</guid><category><![CDATA[mother culture]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:40:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_68d110f26ea243649495cb994315c266~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_622,h_767,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mamma, Go Out and Play]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading Modern Miss Mason by Leah Boden, and I was encouraged by the freedom that Leah is giving homeschooling moms across the globe. This post is a narration of part of a chapter Leah wrote called Creating Soul Space, and I have sprinkled it with some of my own thoughts too.   Madonna and Child by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato "Serenity of a Madonna.—There's a reason why the old painters, no matter how different their ideas about other matters might have been,...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/mamma-go-out-and-play</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b0db3bcf32270d168d9fbb</guid><category><![CDATA[mother culture]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 04:44:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_5462097757b747ce9748381d620c7e35~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_750,h_945,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother Culture January: Pattern and Pace]]></title><description><![CDATA[We should all be wise to assess our habits as we head into a new year,.]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/mother-culture-january-pattern-and-pace</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65af3d03ebe4ab0f02caaffc</guid><category><![CDATA[mother culture]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 04:14:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9799b0_7938ce65ffd0467fac8b1d110d39f0a5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Robyn Doyle</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chasing Beauty in the Mountains]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is this life, if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like stars at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/beauty-chasing-in-the-mountains</link><guid isPermaLink="false">653a561aa47351a2461d0f13</guid><category><![CDATA[beauty chasing]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 03:48:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_ecbf1a1f3baf43dfb097d9053265eecf~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walking Life at the Speed of Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[Axioms for Wildness Alive to the thrill Of the wild. Meet the dawn On a mountain. Wash your face In the morning dew. Feel the favor of the earth. Go out naked in the wind, Your skin Almost Aeolian. With the music inside, Dance like there is no outside. Become subtle enough To hear a tree breathe. Sleep by the ocean, Letting yourself unfurl Like the reeds that swirl Gradually on the sea floor. Try to watch a painting from within: How it holds what it never shows. The mystery of your face,...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/walking-life-at-the-speed-of-love</link><guid isPermaLink="false">652964de46b8127d5a44a8f0</guid><category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:09:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_8406c61049604203a25b17e11956d76f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_800,h_802,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hobbies, Rootedness and Rhythm]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a friend mentioned Holy Hygge¹: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow, I rushed to SCRIBD and saved it to my bookshelf. I have savoured it and enjoyed learning about this Danish lifestyle of slow and attentive living. In her chapter titled Well-Being, Jamie Erickson lays out various ways to take care of ourselves and others: to “regain a sense of value for ourselves and for our friends and neighbours” and to follow Jesus’ example to “have life—and have it more...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/hobbies-rootedness-and-rhythm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64dcaaafb6cc33fc5fb78234</guid><category><![CDATA[mother culture]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2023 06:59:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_7061932714bb45d697d3f7875a40cd3b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beholding - Thoughts From Our Winter Retreat ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Still Life Flowers in Vase, by Maggie Laubser Last year we held our first Winter Retreat! It was a very special time for everyone present...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/beholding-thoughts-from-our-winter-retreat</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66eb16960c362138806efeac</guid><category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[encouragement]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:42:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1c65a2_5e49b39ca74d4c7899e5f90112502a80~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_529,h_647,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarah Spring</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poem: My Grandmother's Mulberry Tree]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don't remember learning to climb my grandmother's mulberry tree, or the first time I sat in her boughs with a book. I can't tell you...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/my-grandmothers-mulberry-tree</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6734444d33f336791ac02f79</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:32:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1c65a2_f0f98fcccba546819cf77b117f87c559~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melanie Blignaut</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living Books For Living Souls]]></title><description><![CDATA[How do you know you have a living book in your hands? You are reading a book to your children, 8 and 11 years old, and they narrate back...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/living-books-for-living-souls</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67375bfd9e601ace81f8bd72</guid><category><![CDATA[literature]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:29:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_df6fc899eb4e44479c2aa4f510ede572~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_435,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rumbidzai Mkodzongi</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the Mountain Meets the Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[(Originally published in  Common Place Quarterley's   " Character(s) To Live By" column) I’m writing this article in the middle of the...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/where-the-mountain-meets-the-moon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66f66cfbc8d51068258d4834</guid><category><![CDATA[literature]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:01:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_2c553ee06d7b4c7ab1a1e0ba25c341ef~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_679,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Ode to Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[My heart was still lovesick for Spring. She is here now and has scattered her pearls on the figs, mulberries, and strawberries in my garden.]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/an-ode-to-spring</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66b64271ae2250961e3deabd</guid><category><![CDATA[nature study]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 16:58:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_fd2c5cfedcb5492198f63c6894acd425~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Joyful Journey: Implementing Charlotte Mason's Educational Philosophy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The more I read about Charlotte Mason's philosophy, the more I felt this was the kind of education I wanted for my children--and myself.]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/a-joyful-journey-implementing-charlotte-mason-s-educational-philosophy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66b47e64bd7267529428b76c</guid><category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category><category><![CDATA[education]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 16:07:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1c65a2_9a89b76e845446b5b93e42189b8a48fc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melanie Blignaut</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Retreat Reflection on Habit Training]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I think of developing habits as directing affections, it allows me to disciple my children with patience, humility and gentleness. ]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/a-retreat-reflection-on-habit-training</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66a87c4d7f5f61b5c3285081</guid><category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category><category><![CDATA[community]]></category><category><![CDATA[education]]></category><category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:08:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1c65a2_72a32f10b7524829b743e0a6fbfd1f21~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Claire Barnes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gift of Friendship]]></title><description><![CDATA[Usually, the sun is shining in my world. My disposition declares that even if it’s overcast here, the sun is burning bright above the...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/the-gift-of-friendship</link><guid isPermaLink="false">668ff06d4d19c5e245f58e33</guid><category><![CDATA[encouragement]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:03:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/515d48fe802e4089a8965dfe58ae48c1.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Taryn Robb</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Storing up Images of Delight: The Power of Memorisation]]></title><description><![CDATA["Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, the counsel- chamber of thought." —Attributed...]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/the-power-of-memorisation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6675c8c0164e45fd03f6cafc</guid><category><![CDATA[literature]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:12:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4ae19b_5360ffdb30f24772a6972910291f1588~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_656,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Angelique Knaup</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother Culture May: Sovereignty and Sufficiency]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a church, we are busy doing the Disciplines of a Godly Man and Woman by R. Kent and Barbara Hughes in our men’s and ladies' meetings....]]></description><link>https://www.africanmissmason.com/post/mother-culture-may-sovereignty-and-sufficiency</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6651afd0e1a67c12076d1913</guid><category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 13:23:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_c905d5f895c8480b98f5aeeb49a90532~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Robyn Doyle</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>