Classical Education in our home part 3: answering the call

God calls.
We listen and respond, right?

How many times does God’s call go unheeded because our first reaction is fear?

What if I can’t?

What if they won’t?

What if I’m wrong?

But where God calls…

…where God calls He equips.

HE equips.

Internet searches are fine – if you know what it is and how to use it. This was 1996. We had a computer, and email. But the internet was in its infancy back then.

But a friend had heard of this school in Pennsylvania

…and one in Idaho…

Classical Education was finding its feet in private schools.

Some say it had never left.

I found Calvert School. I found Greenleaf Press.

We started our second year of homeschooling armed with a desire to educate our children

…differently…

We read. I studied.

God brought Charlotte Mason to my attention.

I studied more, adapted, made do with a small, very small, budget.

Veritas Press. Memoria Press. Sonlight. Susan Wise Bauer and The Well Trained Mind. Tapestry of Grace.

I studied history, Latin, math.

I dove into the Bible.

I learned the things I should have learned in those naive years between 12 and 20.

A plan developed; a method.

My poor children. Guinea Pigs, all.