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.
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.
