so far away from home...
We've started a new habit in the mornings... our whole family gets up with the seminarians..my husband goes to work, and while the two "grown girls" are in class, the younger 3 and I get a jump start on our schoolwork in the car while we're waiting. It has proven to make our days much more productive and ultimately more freetime when we're done with our work.And a tad more obedient about scripture time.
Bonus.
Today, as we waited... Aj&E noticed a young deer running across the big busy street in front of the church. She darted through traffic, jumping this way and that....obviously very disoriented.
We wondered where she could have come from, as we were not near any wooded areas.
L commented that she must have lost her forrest... lost her way back home.
As the spindely-legged young doe tentatively headed towards us, it was if we could sense her anxiety.
"I'd be so sad if I couldn't find my home."
Everyone was in agreement.
We began discussing how it would be possible for this little yearling to be seperated from her family, and more importantly from the wooded area that would protect her. Aj wondered if she'd been a bit overconfident... thinking she could just stray a bit and find the group when she was done 'looking around'. Each child had interesting thoughts on this... and the conversation turned towards our own lives...
How would it be for us if we made bad choices...causing us to veer from the path...and become vunerable and without the protection of our home and family? How is the traffic from that main street like the world away from that safety... fast and constant... frightening... and causing us to dodge like mad.. in hopes we aren't hit?How often have we allowed ourselves to get cocky, thinking that we could just "look around" and go back when we're good and ready?
It was a beautiful teaching moment and more especially, a beautiful learning moment for me as well. It has been on my mind all morning and I doubt it will leave my mind anytime in the near future.
~~Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. C. Wright Mills
Bonus.
Today, as we waited... Aj&E noticed a young deer running across the big busy street in front of the church. She darted through traffic, jumping this way and that....obviously very disoriented.
We wondered where she could have come from, as we were not near any wooded areas.
L commented that she must have lost her forrest... lost her way back home.
As the spindely-legged young doe tentatively headed towards us, it was if we could sense her anxiety.
"I'd be so sad if I couldn't find my home."
Everyone was in agreement.
We began discussing how it would be possible for this little yearling to be seperated from her family, and more importantly from the wooded area that would protect her. Aj wondered if she'd been a bit overconfident... thinking she could just stray a bit and find the group when she was done 'looking around'. Each child had interesting thoughts on this... and the conversation turned towards our own lives...
How would it be for us if we made bad choices...causing us to veer from the path...and become vunerable and without the protection of our home and family? How is the traffic from that main street like the world away from that safety... fast and constant... frightening... and causing us to dodge like mad.. in hopes we aren't hit?How often have we allowed ourselves to get cocky, thinking that we could just "look around" and go back when we're good and ready?
It was a beautiful teaching moment and more especially, a beautiful learning moment for me as well. It has been on my mind all morning and I doubt it will leave my mind anytime in the near future.
~~Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. C. Wright Mills
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