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Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, and My Journey toward Sanctification
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Although I homeschooled for over a decade before needing to enroll my children in a classical Christian school due to divorce, I had given up on the idea that home education could ever again be realistic or adequate in my family’s case.
When I started listening to Cindy and Angelina on The Literary Life Podcast last fall, something woke in me as I started to read in a way I hadn’t for years… for myself. I told a friend that I felt alive again!
As I listened and read, the desire to homeschool grew once more. It didn’t hurt that two of my children had been asking to be taught at home for years… we tried in 2019-2020, but the timing was off. I began to pray that the Lord would make a way, somehow, for me to bring my younger children home, so we could all sit on the couch like we used to, reading good books together.
I picked up Mere Motherhood to read in faith, for something I couldn’t see yet, and wasn’t disappointed.
Cindy writes with humility and humor and HOPE. She writes honestly about the things she would have done differently, and about the pain as well as the blessing of home-educating a large family. She does it all without oversharing, or telling stories that aren’t hers to tell. She points to Jesus Christ as our true identity and meaning and rest.
Tears rose in my eyes multiple times as I read. I don’t know how the Lord is going to shape the future of my family, but I am trusting Him to do His work.
When I started listening to Cindy and Angelina on The Literary Life Podcast last fall, something woke in me as I started to read in a way I hadn’t for years… for myself. I told a friend that I felt alive again!
As I listened and read, the desire to homeschool grew once more. It didn’t hurt that two of my children had been asking to be taught at home for years… we tried in 2019-2020, but the timing was off. I began to pray that the Lord would make a way, somehow, for me to bring my younger children home, so we could all sit on the couch like we used to, reading good books together.
I picked up Mere Motherhood to read in faith, for something I couldn’t see yet, and wasn’t disappointed.
Cindy writes with humility and humor and HOPE. She writes honestly about the things she would have done differently, and about the pain as well as the blessing of home-educating a large family. She does it all without oversharing, or telling stories that aren’t hers to tell. She points to Jesus Christ as our true identity and meaning and rest.
Tears rose in my eyes multiple times as I read. I don’t know how the Lord is going to shape the future of my family, but I am trusting Him to do His work.
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