quote | Simply Susan

Fully Present In Every Moment

I want to honour the ordinary, to be fully present in the moment… to savour the little pockets of time that so often go by unnoticed. I want to fully engage with whatever it is that my hand is doing at the time. I want to connect all parts of me – head, hands and heart.

What is the Chief End of Homeschooling?

Featured, Homeschooling, Motherhood | 10

The Chief End of Homeschooling: there is an eternal reason for all this mess, untidiness, and constant training. That reason is that God wants ALL of us- our entire life. Our goal is to love God and glorify Him forever – in the midst of spilled Weetbix and poopie nappies and children that can’t spell.

What about my rights?

Quotes | 5

“To be broken means to have no rights before God and man. It does not mean merely...

God’s Hidden Agenda

Motherhood, Quotes | 5

God’s initial goal for Christian homeschooling families is not the raising of godly children. Instead, God’s wonderful, but subtly hidden agenda is that the homeschooling experience be so challenging for the parents that they feel the need and hunger for a closer walk with their heavenly Father.

Parenting – for whose sake?

Heart Sharing, Quotes | 5

To go along with the quote I posted reviously, here is another one. Ouch! Yes, God I know…...

Childhood & the Scriptures by Spurgeon

Musing, Quotes | 5

Let us expect our children to know the Lord. Let us from the beginning mingle the name of Jesus with the A B C. Let them read their first lessons from the bible. It is a remarkable thing that there is no book from which children learn to read so quickly as from the New Testament: there is a charm about that book which draws forth the infant mind. But let us never be guilty, as parents, of forgetting the religious training of our children; for if we do we may be guilty of the blood of their souls

Soft Christians

Quotes | 4

Our churches these days are filled (or one-quarter filled) with a soft breed of Christian that...

Read Your Bible Daily

Bible Studies & Links, Quotes | 4

“Read the Bible daily. Make it part of every day’s business to read and meditate on some portion...

Mother's first duty

Musing, Quotes | 3

Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can the godly mother quit her home for a place of worship, but dream not that she is lost to the work of the church; far from it, she is doing the best possible service for her Lord. Spurgeon