CMP Review 2025-09-07

“Life, in any real sense, is the knowledge of God now,” writes Charlotte Mason; “and, without that knowledge, there cannot be the free and joyous activity of our powers, the glow of our feelings, the happy living, free from care, the open eye for all beauty, the open heart for all goodness, the responsive mind, the tender heart, the aspiring soul—which go to make up fulness of life.”

In Luke 16 the Pharisees scoffed at Christ’s teaching about riches. Charlotte Mason wrote an unpublished poem that extrapolates from this text and imagines what the conversation between Christ and the Pharisees might have been like. She understood that their interaction was about more than just money. She wrote:

What men give
Proclaim them not acceptable to God
But what they love, desire exceedingly
Nor ever let it from their thoughts remove.

It is not what we give or what we do that makes for life. It is what we love. Read or hear about the knowledge which goes to make up fulness of life. Find it here.

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🖼️: The Pharisee and the Publican by James Tissot