March 2013 – Greater Roanoke Home Educators

Birthdays…..

I think I was at least 30 or more before I realized that the national obsession with birthdays was NOT the case the world over. Here in America it is “normal” to celebrate birthdays, but how far back did that go? I’m sure I could research that, but my real feeling, as I contemplate the […]

Leaving Home

On Saturday I was discussing with another mother the cultural tendency in America to move away from your parents. When did it seem like a good idea to leave everything you have ever known, and strike out in a completely new place? Well, it was already in place when I was growing up; when I […]

A Praying Woman

“Prayer is the true gauge of spiritual power. To restrain prayer is a dangerous and deadly tendency. This is a faithful saying: what you are upon your knees, you are really before your God. What the Pharisee and the publican were in prayer was the true criterion of their spiritual state [Luke 18: 10-14]. You […]