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If God expected you to get thirty-six hours’ worth of work done in a day, He would have given you thirty-six hours to do it. If you have more to do than time to do it in, the simple fact is this: Some of what you are doing isn’t on His agenda for you.
Take a hard look at the 168 hours in your week. Now consider your nonnegotiables: sleep, eat, shower, pray.
“Margin is the space between our load and our limits. It is the amount allowed beyond that which is needed. It is something held in reserve for contingencies or unanticipated situations. Margin is the gap between rest and exhaustion, the space between breathing freely and suffocating.”14
“Morning Time is not about reaping a quick harvest of spinach or lettuce after a few cool weeks,” she said. “[It’s] about faithfully tending an orchard over long, long years knowing that the future harvest will be far more valuable than any quick crop. Maybe it isn’t even an orchard—this is homeschool carbon which will produce a harvest of diamonds for those who have the patience and the courage to go for the long prize.”
By definition, to be efficient is to achieve maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.
What if, instead of trying to make the most of our time, we worked harder at savoring it?
What if we were more intentional and lavish with our time and more detached from our checklists?
means that we are doing one thing at a time, and we do that thing with all our heart.
Today, do less. Do it well.
What beauty to watch a mom thrive alongside her children.
Do whatever you need in order to behold the face of God in your children and to delight in them.
The most important thing every teacher should understand is that teaching is the art of being imitated. If you want a student to perceive a truth, you have to embody it. That’s what teaching is. When you teach, whether you intend to or not, you are saying to your students, “imitate me.” Make yourself worthy of imitation.
He celebrated and blessed his creation (Gen. 2:3). The Sabbath rest and the regular feasts were not given so that God’s people would do nothing, though it did mean ceasing from typical daily labor. Rather it was meant as a time for a particular kind of robust activity—feasting, celebration and blessing. The Sabbath rest is not the mere cessation of labor, but the orientation of the human to his highest end—the “work” of leisure, the “work” of praising, serving, feasting and blessing.23
Leisure, it must be clearly understood, is a mental and spiritual attitude—it is not simply the result of external factors, it is not the inevitable result of spare time, a holiday, a weekend or a vacation. It is, in the first place, an attitude of mind, a condition of the soul, and as such utterly contrary to the ideal of “worker” in each and every one of the three aspects under which it was analyzed: work as activity, as toil, as social function. . . . For leisure is a receptive attitude of mind, a contemplative attitude, and it is not only the occasion but also the capacity for steeping
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‘In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.’ ” Repentance, then, goes hand in hand with rest.
Meaningful learning happens when our children wrestle directly with great ideas—not as a result of our repackaging those great ideas, but when they interact with the ideas themselves.
We want all else to pale in comparison to our quest toward honor, virtue, and wisdom.
Chesterton tells us that anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
Cultivating intellectual growth, nurturing our creativity, diving into good books, learning new skills, working refreshment into a busy routine—that is how we fill our pitchers brimful of water.
Without a doubt, God loves to do great things in the lives of children through the toil of their hardworking, ever-loving mothers. But He works through the consecrated toil of moms who are submitted to His Son and who work with divine energy not their own
