The Healing Words

It is marvelous how truth heals.

From all sides I am bombarded by angry voices from the world, all insisting they are right, and all containing shards of wrong that wound.

Truth is a balm and a repairer of wounds. Even when it’s not directly addressing my wounds, the beauty of wholeness makes me feel whole again.

The mother is qualified,” says Pestalozzi, “and qualified by the Creator Himself, to become the principal agent in the development of her child; … and what is demanded of her is––a thinking love … God has given to the child all the faculties of our nature, but the grand point remains undecided––how shall this heart, this head, these hands be employed? To whose service shall they be dedicated? A question the answer to which involves a futurity of happiness or misery to a life so dear to thee. Maternal love is the first agent in education.” Charlotte Mason’s book Home Education (Vol. 1, page 2)