Encouragement

As a mom of teens, I find myself in the car more often than I prefer. I am learning to reframe this time as an opportunity to connect with my older children, hear their hearts, sample their questionable taste in music, and listen to their discourse with friends. Sometimes, when there is bickering or deadpan silence, I fill that void with great podcasts. Recently, I listened to a podcast called  "Human Dignity and the Classical Tradition". As my eldest daughter and I traveled the winding, rural roads that lead to town, we listened to Winston Brady, from the podcast Developing Classical Thinkers, explain that "classical education asserts the proposition that human beings are image bearers, having been created by God with the capacity for reason and contemplation, the drive for creative self-expression, and the capacity to make free, meaningful moral choices".  I glanced over at her several times throughout the podcast, delighted that she comprehended the content being shared as a result of the education I have been providing her for the past three years. Neither of us would have understood concepts like syllogisms, premises,  Latin words like Imago Dei let alone natural law versus common law. They were foreign concepts only a short time ago, but they are now, rich with meaning. 

 While homeschooling is HARD, there is a richness that I am only now beginning to enjoy as I watch my littles transform into young people who can think critically and know who they are.