“A home without children! It is like a lantern and no candle; a garden and no flowers; a vine and no grapes; a brook and no water gurgling and gushing in its channel … Children are more easily led to be good by examples of loving kindness, and tales of […]
“What does the study of birds do for the imagination, that high power possessed by humans alone, that lifts them upward step by step into new realms of discovery and joy? If the thought of a tiny hummingbird, a mere atom in the universe, migrating from New England to Central America will not stimulate a […]
“You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its might tryst with the little land it loves. […]
“This Island is the bloomiest place. I just love it already, and I am so glad I’m going to live here.” -Anne Shirley If it has been rather quiet on the blog lately … it is because our family has made a rather large move — into another province! Yes, we […]
“Children become what you raise them to become. You cannot determine their salvation; you don’t have that much responsibility, but neither can you fatalistically ignore your responsibility and say ‘Oh well, God’s going to do what he’s going to do” … because God does His work through instruments — and parents are those instruments. Train […]
