“There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter, and spring.”
~William Browne~

Sometimes I like reading through my old journals just to see what random quotes I wrote down. It always impresses me how much I was reading, and how I seemed to read so much more in the throes of homeschooling even though it seems that now I have more time. Sometimes I read things and wonder where I was getting it from.

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Pride-the belief that you know so much as to do without the transcendent

Humility-deeply aware of your own ignorance
*listening makes micro adjustments to one’s own self
*the ultimate sacrifice is the continual sacrificing of self to God, guided by unshakable commitment to highest good

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This book about C.S. Lewis that I started reading last night repeatedly talks about the Joy, or longing for something beyond the world that meets the eye. I know this longing well. It makes the waters cooler, the grasses greener, the honey sweeter. It also makes the sorrow longer. Perhaps it never goes away. Not in this life.

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The boys are getting so big. I tucked them in tonight and sang to them, hoping to calm their energetic demeanors. I do not feel yet that motherhood has passed by fast, but I do see now how it, indeed, is passing by.

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There is one week left of school and truthfully, I am ready to be done. I am over all the struggles. I don’t like unpleasant situations. I am homeschooling because I believe it will make not only an eternal difference for my children, but also an earthly one. I just hope that I am not wrong, that all of this unpleasantness was not for nothing.

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Difficult and rich-this is what a person in an authentic maturation finds at the essence of it all-and it shows-both inside and outside, on the person who strives toward it. This we know, there is a noticeable difference between a considered life of depth and one based on phantasmagoric beliefs. On this journey toward “true home” though we may, from time to time, turn back to record or measure from whence we came, we do not turn back in order to turn back.

(source unknown)