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"The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens...

When I think of developing habits as directing affections, it allows me to disciple my children with patience, humility and gentleness.

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 th

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. L

Hello, from one homeschool mom to another. I finished my high school education in 2000 at Gateway High School and then studied CIS with...