I would like to have an encouraging reference in my lesson plans that I can read when I need to in addition to our goals. So I'm asking those that read my blog to leave a comment regarding something that encourages them in their homeschooling endeavors.
It can be a quote, poem, a story, a short list of goals, jokes, advice for when the kids aren't cooperating- anything.
Thanks in advance,
Jessica
It can be a quote, poem, a story, a short list of goals, jokes, advice for when the kids aren't cooperating- anything.
Thanks in advance,
Jessica
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Not directly education related, but I find it inspiring. At least it is sort of why I homeschool, and the Pilgrims certainly went through more hardship for the benefit of their children then I've ever had to or probably ever will have to:
Landing of the Pilgrims
The breaking waves dashed high,
On a stern and rock-bound coast,
And the woods against a stormy sky
Their giant branches tossed;
And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters o'er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.
Not as the conqueror comes,
They, the true-hearted came;
Not with the roll of the stirring drums,
And the trumpet that sings of fame;
Not as the flying come,
In silence and in fear;--
They shook the depths of the desert gloom
With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Amidst the storm they sang,
And the stars heard, and the sea;
And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang
To the anthem of the free!
The ocean eagle soared
From his nest by the white wave's foam;
And the rocking pines of the forest roared--
This was their welcome home!
There were men with hoary hair
Amidst that pilgrim band:
Why had they come to wither there,
Away from their childhood's land?
There was woman's fearless eye,
Lit by her deep love's truth;
There was manhood's brow serenely high,
And the fiery heart of youth.
What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--
They sought a faith's pure shrine!
Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod.
They have left unstained what there they found--
Freedom to worship God.
~~Felicia Dorothea Hemans l793-1835
Galations 6:9, 10
9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.
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