“The routines of housework and of mothering may be seen as a kind of death, and it is appropriate that they should be, for they offer a chance, day after day, to lay down one’s life for others. Then they are no longer routines.”
Elisabeth Elliot
Category Archives: Parenting
On Sending Living Messages -Neil Postman
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
Neil Postman
On What You’ve Been to Me -Marilynne Robinson-
“I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.” (John Ames)
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
On Parenting and Grace -Toby J. Sumpter-
“Parenting is always a loaves and fishes thing: you never have enough grace. But when you give thanks and start giving, Jesus gives more grace.”
Toby J. Sumpter (on Facebook, September 2, 2012)
On Catechizing our Children -C.H. Spurgeon-
Unless we are careful over the young, there may be none to bear the Lord’s banner when we sleep among the clods. In matters of doctrine, you will find orthodox congregations frequently change to heterodoxy in the course of thirty or forty years, and that is because too often there has been no catechizing of the children in the essential doctrines of the Gospel.
—Charles Spurgeon
On Taking Truth Seriously -Francis A. Shaeffer-
“To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us. ”
― Francis A. Schaeffer
On Not Trying to Hide our Children from the World -N.D. Wilson-
“The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not try to pretend there is no danger. Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they’ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.”
― N.D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God’s Spoken World
On Doing and Praying -John Bunyan-
“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you can’t do more than pray until you have prayed.”
John Bunyan (quoted by Beeke on his book Bringing the Gospel to Covenant Children -P.34)
On Saying No -Douglas Wilson-
“True discipline says no in a world full of yes.”
Douglas Wilson, Father Hunger
On Keeping our Balance -Douglas Wilson-
“The hardest thing to maintain in this unbalanced world is balance.”
Doug Wilson, Father Hunger (chapter 13)
