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Scale How “Meditations”

Scale How “Meditations”

The Story of Scale How Meditations

No. 1 (John 1:1)
No. 2 (John 1:1–18)
No. 3 (John 1:12–18)
No. 4 (John 1:18–29)
No. 5 (John 1:29–34)
No. 6 (John 1:35–43)
No. 7 (John 1:43–51)
No. 8 (John 2:1–11)
No. 9 (John 2:12–19)
No. 10 (John 2:23–3:15)
No. 11 (John 3:8–17)
No. 12 (John 3:22–4:4)
No. 13 (John 4:1–42)
No. 14 (John 4:43-54)
No. 15 (John 5:1-16)
No. 16 (John 5:17-24)
No. 17 (John 5:24-29)
No. 18 (John 5:30-45)
No. 19 (John 6:1-14)
No. 20 (John 6:15-22)
No. 21 (John 6:22-28)
No. 22 (John 6:27-35)
No. 23 (John 6:36-45)
No. 24 (John 6:45-60)
No. 25 (John 6:61-68)
No. 26 (John 7:1-13)
No. 27 (John 7:14-24)
No. 28 (John 7:25-35)

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I’ve always had a hankering for holy places. It I’ve always had a hankering for holy places. It goes all the way back to when I was a young child and would visit the National Cathedral. I would gaze in wonder at the tapestries, lift my eyes to the stained glass windows, and wander through the maze of chapels underground. A desire grew up in me to visit other cathedrals and beautiful sanctuaries, hoping to find something, perhaps not sure what. As a mature man that longing took me across the Atlantic, to Rome, to Florence, to Siena…

… not once but many times. Until one day in that city of three hills a thought (or was it a still, small voice) came to me and asked, “Why are you here?” My heart’s unspoken reply: “I’m looking for You.” And then understanding flooded in. The place to find God is where He has called me to serve. And at that moment I just wanted to be home, teaching and caring for the children and family He had entrusted to me.

William Flete loved the forest of Lecceto. It was his sacred place, the place he believed God could be found. Catherine of Siena wrote to him in an attempt to rouse him to work: “And do we think God can be found only in one place and not in another? I don’t think so! It’s my experience that for God’s true servants every place is their place and every time is their time. When it’s time to abandon their own consolation and embrace difficulties for God’s honor, they do it. And when it’s time to leave the woods and go into public places because God’s honor demands it, they go.”

Are you doing the laundry today instead of visiting a cathedral? Are you changing a diaper instead of praying in the woods? Are you scrambling to master fractions just in time for your next math lesson instead of resting in the sanctuary? Take heart. Charlotte Mason’s meditation on John 7 has a word for you: “where Christ is, is ever a condition and not a place. No change of place should remove Him from instant access to the meek and lowly of heart who come unto Him, to them who labour and are heavy-laden.”

You don’t need to leave your labor to find your Lord. Take a moment with Mason’s 28th meditation and let the truth sink in. Link in profile.

@artmiddlekauff
“To participate in beauty is to come into the pr “To participate in beauty is to come into the presence of the Holy” - John O’Donohue 

@aolander
Charlotte Mason speaks of the delightful consciou Charlotte Mason speaks of the delightful consciousness of drawing new power out of a child. At various times over the years, I’ve had to ask myself what it is that prevents me from experiencing this. Am I in an adult-like hurry to get further faster? Am I afraid my child’s falling “behind”? Can I just not keep my mouth shut? Or do I somehow believe my child isn’t capable?

One of the brilliant elements of Charlotte Mason’s approach to math is the idea of exploration versus explanation. The child who’s drawn a rectangle and finds it tedious to count out its size in squares soon discovers a rule for finding area himself. If he’s allowed to use money as long as necessary in his Numbers lessons and has had lots of hands-on work with the metric system, then he will determine much for himself when he’s introduced to decimals. When a girl has attempted to add all sorts of things together that possess different names, such as cats and dogs that can only be added once renamed to “pets” or “animals,” then she is on the road to discovering common denominators.

What prevents you from drawing new power out of your child? Let’s take a collective breath and relax our shoulders a bit, then give our children time and opportunity to explore rather than jumping in to explain.

@rbaburina
At the Charlotte Mason Institute 2016 Eastern Conf At the Charlotte Mason Institute 2016 Eastern Conference in Wilmore, Kentucky, I co-led a chat on the topic of “Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition.” To open the chat, I presented a deck of 40 slides entitled “Five Important Differences between Charlotte Mason and contemporary Christian Classical Education (CCE) … in their own words.” The discussion that ensued was lively, dynamic, and memorable.

After assembling that deck, I spent the months and years following digging deeper into these topics. For example, I analyzed the classical models of David Hicks and James Taylor and compared them to Charlotte Mason’s thought. A significant milestone in my research came with my video presentation entitled “Charlotte Mason and the Educational Tradition.”

Across these years, I have spoken with many people, read and discussed Mason’s six volumes twice, and studied a wide range of additional PNEU documents. While I believe that most of my conclusions have stood the test of time, I must concede that I have made some mistakes along the way.

For example, in the 2016 presentation I drew one particular conclusion in good faith based on a statement in a document authorized by Charlotte Mason some time between 1896 and 1915. I have come to see that particular assertion as no longer tenable in light of the full range of evidence that I have since examined.

My goal is to promote an authentic interpretation of Charlotte Mason’s method. That goal takes precedence over my desire to always be right. To contribute to a fuller appreciation of Mason’s vision for a living education, I’ve updated slide 26 of the deck with a note of correction. I hope that can encourage in some small way a more unified inquiry into the full meaning and significance of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy of education. The deck with the amended 26th slide may be found at the profile link.

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