A friend sent me the following GK Chesterton quote today, and I really like it. “I can understand how [mothering] might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about arithmetic, and a small career to tell one’s own […]
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God’s Love for Us Glorifies Himself
Excerpted from the first day of Pierced by the Word, by John Piper: “We have absorbed the world’s definition of love. It says: You are loved when you are made much of. The main problem with this definition is that when you try to apply it to God’s love for us, it distorts reality. God’s […]
Unit Studies Made Easy {review}
This book, by Valerie Bendt, is a compilation and update of several earlier books: How to Create Your Own Unit Study, The Unit Study Idea Book, For the Love of Reading, and Success with Unit Studies. Because there are four books in one, there is some repetition; however, I found it to reinforce and encourage […]