Music

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth into which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education. - Yo-Yo Ma

Table Blessing

God, we thank you for this food,
For rest and home and all things good;
For wind and rain and sun above,
But most of all for those love.
- Maryleona Frost

Meets Us

Right when we are at the end of long days, long lists and long sleepless nights, Jesus meets us and in Him we are tenderly, patiently, lovingly held together. So we can be ready for tomorrow. - Lisa-Jo Baker

Autumn Leaves

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves. - Joe L. Wheeler

Unimportant

There are no unimportant jobs, no unimportant people, no unimportant acts of kindness. - Author Unknown

Getting Older

I love getting older. My understanding deepens. I can see what connects. I can weave stories of experience and apply them. I can integrate the lessons. Things simply become more and more fascinating. Beauty reveals itself in thousands of forms. - Victoria Erickson

Stories

The best stories are the ones that stick with us long after we've read the last page. - Jason Reynolds

Music

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. - Victor Hugo

Ordinary

I believe God embedded the miraculous in the ordinary, and it is our task to discover and celebrate it. - Kent Nerburn

In the Boat

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat. - John Ortberg

Every Leaf

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. - Emily Bronte

The Small & Simple

We think it is the big moments that define our lives - the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really these big moments of happiness are just punctuation marks. The narrative is written every day in the small and simple. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

Freedom

Play is, first and foremost, an expression of freedom. It is what one wants to do as opposed to what one is obliged to do. - Peter Gray

Watch Your Step

Grandma used to say, 

'Watch your step - what you get into can be tough to get out of.' 

Make godly choices.

- Lynn Townsend

Wake up & Pray

Wake up tomorrow morning --- and each day after --- with a simple prayer: Lord, please help me today, on this one day, to uphold the standards that You have set for our family, to enjoy my children as you do and to truly know these precious souls that You have put in my care. - Rebecca Hagelin

Melody

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory. - Author Unknown

Best Dog

Everyone thinks they have the best dog...and none of them are wrong. - W. R. Purche

Listening for Stories

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole. - Eudora Welty

Remembering Them

If you know someone who has lost a very important person, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died --- you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift. - Elizabeth Edwards 

Need

God loves us so much that sometimes He gives us what we need and not what we ask. - Max Lucado

Carrying

Your task is to be faithful; to do the next thing. And when you cannot get up on your own, let someone carry you, knowing that in due time you will be called on to do the same for others. And when you are blessed with the responsibility of carrying someone else, then your own experience with suffering, your own experience of depending on others, will give you the wisdom and empathy you need to love them well. Christ's body here on Earth is one of His greatest mercies to us. - Alan Noble

Solace

I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. - Anne Frank

Lie Still

I am so weak I cannot write. I cannot read my Bible. I cannot even pray. All I can do is lie still in the arms of God as a little child, trusting Him. - Hudson Taylor

Home

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. - Jane Austen

Belong

Jesus is always reminding us that we belong to one another. - Melissa Zaldivar

Thoughts & Feelings

We can let our thoughts and feelings deplete us of strength, or we can lean fully into God and ask for Him to carry us. - Tracie Miles

Interwoven

Play is not separate from our learning. It's not for "after our work is done". It's the vehicle for our language development, social learning, emerging STEM thinking and more. It's interwoven into everything we do, and engages students' heads, hands and hearts. - Joel Seaman

School Day

I don't make time for play, the whole day is play. - Kristi Mraz

Change

Change of any sort requires courage. - Mary Anne Radmacher