A Decade of Delightful Learning

Delightful Learning spans ten years of our homeschool and family life while living in Sheridan, Wyoming. We have moved and changed, so I feel inclined to close this blogging chapter and move on. 

Here is a quote from today's reading in Ourselves, by Charlotte Mason–this is the direction I want to move in:

The Way of Humility.–In the first place, we must not try to be humble. That is all make-believe, and a bad sort of pride... The thing is to not think of ourselves at all. . .There are many ways to of getting away from the thought of ourselves; the love and knowledge of birds and flowers, of clouds and stones, of all that nature has to show us; pictures, books, people, anything outside of us, will help us to escape from the tyrant who attacks our hearts. One rather good plan is, when we are talking or writing to our friends, not to talk or write about 'thou and I." There are so many interesting things in the world to discuss that it is a waste of time to talk about ourselves. All the same, it is well to be up to the ways of those tiresome selves, and that is why are are invited to read these chapters. It is very well, too, to know that Humility, who takes no thought of himself, is really at home in each of us:– 

"If that in sight of God is great 

    Which counts itself for small, 

We by the law humility 

The chiefest grace must call; 

Which being such, not knows itself 

 To be a grace at all. 

                                         TRENCH

When I posted We Shell Sea, I was (and am still) not sure what my fresh start will look like, but I know "Try a little harder next time" is relevant to my story moving forward, so I hope to launch from there for a fresh start and talk about love and "birds and flowers, of clouds and stones, of all that nature has to show us." 

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If you would like to be a part of that journey, please check back. 

 

Until the trumpet sounds. . .