Slow Schooling Chapter Four

Defining what slow schooling IS

The One Thing That Matters

Friday, January 25, 2008

I know it is not within my power to choose for my children the path they will take when they are of age. And yet, they are currently entrusted to me. Will I give more thought to their clothing and physical health than to their spiritual well being? Will I be satisfied they ate their vegetables even if their Bible was not cracked open this day?

If we now know what slow schooling is NOT, then what IS it? Slow schooling IS about putting priorities in proper ordering, and purposes to put feet to the intangible and ever eluding desires of our soul. For Christians, the wretching cry of our hearts is for our children to come to repentance and salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ, and everything else either streams from that very thought or else leads right back to it. Where we lose our footing is in trying to consider, “...and this is how this is accomplished....”

Salvation is from God alone, but that fact does not excuse us from the respons…