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| Why Homeschooling Rocks:
1) I can be cutting vegetables while giving a spelling test.
2) While walking the dog, we can chant Latin paradigms and sing Spanish canciones.
3) We can review math questions while feeding the baby.
3) I can take my kids on a field trip every week and still get all our week's work done.
4) We can do the school over the weekend to catch up or do school work in advance to have some fun over the weekdays.
5) I don't have to wake up at 6:30 AM so that my kids can make it to school by 7:30AM. In fact, I sleep in and still get more schoolwork done than what a public school teacher does. Just on Mondays, we do Spelling, Writing, Grammar, Math, Latin, Spanish, Logic, Ancient History, and Life Science. We also work on memorizing Scriptural outlines, verses, doctrinal catechism, and classic poems.
I couldn't have asked for a better way of spending time with my kids! | | |
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My life in hands and a pair of feet... | | |
| My girls and I are part of a homeschool coop run by a local conservative and confessional Lutheran church. Every meeting is begun with a very liturgical chapel time which includes the singing of a hymn we're learning for the month. For this Advent season, we are learning Hark! A thrilling Voice is Sounding. The lyrics which warn and encourage the listener about the first and second comings of Christ are echoed in the melody. There is a minor key theme which emphasizes the near plaintive tone of the song. It is calling us to repentance to embrace the Man who will one day come in judgement. The sadness for those who will be judged and comfort for those who believe can be heard in the melody. It moved me to tears yesterday morning.
Hark! A Thrilling Voice Is Sounding
Hymn Lyrics
Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding;
“Christ is nigh,” it seems to say,
“Cast away the works of darkness,
O ye children of the day.”
Wakened by the solemn warning
Let the earthbound soul arise;
Christ, her Sun, all ill dispelling,
Shines upon the morning skies.
Lo, the Lamb, so long expected,
Comes with pardon down from Heav’n;
Let us haste, with tears of sorrow,
One and all to be forgiven.
That when next He comes in glory,
And the world is wrapped in fear,
With His mercy He may shield us,
And with words of love draw near.
Honor, glory, might, and blessing
Be to God: the Father, Son
And the everlasting Spirit,
While eternal ages run.
You can listen to the tune here while singing the lyrics. | | |
| by Gerard Manley Hopkins
| GLORY be to God for dappled things— |
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| For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; |
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| For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; |
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| Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; |
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| Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; |
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| And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. |
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| All things counter, original, spare, strange; |
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| Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) |
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| With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; |
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| He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: |
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| Praise him. |
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