Status Updates From Teaching from Rest: A Homes...

Today, do less. Do it well.

“…All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; and listening to that other voice…letting that other larger, stronger, quieter, life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussing and fretting; coming in and out of the wind.”

“…to realize that our work and raising up and teaching, our children is never really done… But we must remember that we were never intended to finish it.”

“Surrender your idea of what the ideal homeschool day is supposed to look like intake on, with both hands, the day that is.”

“…realize that people rank infinitely higher than anything else on the list…”

“The raising of children, the teaching of truth, the sharing of life, the nourishing of imagination, and the cultivating of wisdom— these are all His anyway; we are merely His servants.”

“The being and becoming over the doing and the checking off.”

“…we are anxious and troubled about many things; one thing is needful. If we choose the good portion, it will not be taken from us.”

So fitting as I have spent the summer mediating on Psalm 16:5 and Lamentations 3:24

My annual read!