The Latin word from whence we get “discipline”, literally means “instruction, knowledge.” So the lack, then, of discipline, must imply a lack of knowledge. This comes as a hard blow to someone like myself, who tends to think of a vice, such as procrastination, a mere employee to be taken in hand. I confess I […]
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When I was a kid and we would be out driving at night, my favorite thing to do was see all the houses with their lights on. I loved to imagine what other people’s worlds were like. Just a passing glimpse would give me a hint of the mysterious lives of perfect strangers. The biggest
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Last month marked the passing of Ravi Zacharias, a great teacher and apologist. His was the first book of substance I read willingly as a young adult, skeptical of digging deeper than complacency in the Christian faith. If you are unfamiliar with Ravi, his mission can be accurately summed up in his organization’s motto: “Helping
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Education is not a race. I had to tell myself this truth repeatedly throughout the year, and I think it’s finally starting to sink in. It is so easy to set goals for my children and then, despite my knowing different, pressure them and myself to “get it done”. This has been my approach to
These past few months have brought a lot of change. Our school has been disrupted and our plans have been thrown out the window. As difficult as all of this has been, it has challenged us in both the good and the bad. Maybe we have slowed down and spent quality time with our children.
