CMP Review 2025-05-13

May 13, 2025

Recently I was pouring out my heart to God. I was wrestling with the worries and responsibilities of homeschooling. I had an idea of what I wanted to accomplish. But I had no idea of how to get there.

Just at that moment I listened to the recording of Nancy Kelly’s opening Conversazione from the 2023 Living Education Retreat. I got to a point that I had to pause the recording because I knew that the Lord had a message for me.

“If … you place the onus of successful education on the shoulders of the teacher, or even the student,” urged Nancy, “what you have is a form of educational legalism, carried out by human endeavor, and it will be a lifeless framework.”

I wrote down the words so I could remind myself again and again of how to reach my destination. You see, we are not learning how to teach. We are learning how to live.

Today Nancy has made available this recording on the Charlotte Mason Poetry recording podcast. I urge you to listen. Perhaps the Holy Spirit will use it to speak to you as He did to speak to me. Find it here.

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