Awaking Wonder: Making Your Home a Place of Resources & The Gang Podcast

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“Make it a goal to give your child an environment that piques their curiosity in people, ideas, stories. Give them opportunities to explore, learn, and create driven by their own interest and delight.”

Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder

“Mom, I’m bored. There’s nothing to do!”

Oh how I dreaded this statement. Yet, this pressure helped lead me to understand that the more interesting I made my home, the less my children would need me to entertain them. Clay and I spent many a time together figuring out how to create places of art and drawing, places to build and leave up lego creations, a box of dress up clothes and a myriad of other items that our children could use to build on their own creative play that led to a more robust imagination and more knowledge.

I can’t wait to share this podcast that I recorded with my leaders who have so wonderfully created our membership, https://lifewithsally.com. We have put together a community where fun traditions, spiritual teaching, ideas, books, recipes, discipleship takes place all the time. We created it to be a resource for all of you who want ideas to keep these ideals going. It is our hope that our membership will help Awaken Your Wonder and know better how to build your own home into a place that exudes life, fun, education, discipleship.

Last week I talked with my friends about getting started and establishing foundations for awaking wonder. We are back this week to discuss resources for making your home a place to awaken wonder in your children. All parents are educators regardless of whether they choose public school, private school, or homeschooling and our homes can be a place of inspiration, imagination, and learning. With a bit of planning and intentionality, you can create a lifegiving home where your children can explore together and develop an appetite for wonder. When my children were younger we had baskets of books, bins of dress up clothes, and briefcases for each child filled with coloring books, stickers, and other trinkets for car trips. Creating spaces where you children can explore will awaken their minds and hearts.

In today’s podcast we discuss some specific ways to make these areas of exploration a reality. Where do I create these spaces? How? Will it cost me too much money? We spend time discussing how to make new, interesting, and engaging activities while mostly using what you have on hand already. What can you utilize in a new way? What art supplies can you pull out to be more accessible? Are your children ready to learn a new game? Learning and growing doesn’t have to be while seated at a desk, it can happen all along the way.

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Awaking Wonder Through Music: A Conversation With Joel

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All of us are given a personality, a unique story to live. As parents we have the opportunity to look at the inside of our children, find the themes that make up their particular beauty, and weave that into harmony in their life. At the heart of Awaking Wonder is the idea that we are called to become the maestro of our children’s lives, who conducts the symphony of their lives. I knew I wanted to have that role in each of my children’s journey; but I simply never imagined that one of my children would become an actual maestro.

Joel has had a musical ear since the very beginning. Born when we were living Vienna, he’s carried the music soul of his home city into the fullness of his life, from his work as a film score composer, to his beautiful piano performance, to the gorgeous music he writes for church choirs. Harmonies and melodies flow from him like water from a faucet.

Not only has he expressed goodness and beauty through his music, he is now studying the way that music helps us better encounter God and worship Him. He has a masters degree from the University in St Andrews, in Scotland, where he studied in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, and now he is pursuing a PhD at St Andrews as well. He brings such insight and thoughtfulness to all his different life pursuits, from his creative work to his writing, and I’m so delighted that we were able to have a conversation together about art, beauty, creativity, and stimulating that wonder and imagination in children. I very much hope you’ll listen to today’s podcast as Joel verbalizes perfectly what I feel about the role of a mentor in education. You will be so deeply inspired. I hope you enjoy!

To follow Joel, like his Facebook page, or follow him on Instagram.

You can find all his music on his website, www.joelclarkson.com, and on all your favorite streaming platforms, like Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play.

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The Book That Changed My Life & Joy Podcast

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Words have a power to transform, to inspire, to destroy, to leave scars or to cast vision. Stories have the mysterious sway to give us a feeling that we have been with friends who understand us, lived in worlds we have never visited and imagine ourselves being heroes that give us courage in real life.

Fifty-seven years ago, I was a dreamy eyed 10 year old that was already imagining possibilities in my future life. My father had been transferred to a new job in Houston, Texas and I hoped it would hold friendship, adventure and fun. It was the first time I had ever moved to another city and so a bit of fear hovered over my young self as I pondered whether I would find “my gang” as I had enjoyed for all of my life.

Fate lead me into unexpected pathways, though, and I found myself in and out of the hospital, bedridden and lonely. Evidently, I was deathly allergic to mildew and mold and ended up being carted away to the hospital for double pneumonia twice with breathing a constant struggle.

A double bed was my home days upon end. My mama would open the curtains to my bedroom, which had ahbay window that looked out upon 57 pine trees. I know because I had counted them numerous times.

One day, she brought me a whole pile of books and said, “I hope that these books might companion you when I can’t stay with you.” Right in the middle of the pile was A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Resting there against several fluffy pillows, I entered into a world that gave expression to some of what I had been feeling. And the ideas so changed me that I have never forgotten them.

What books have taken you on significant life voyages that have transformed your imagination as you traveled to inner worlds where you felt yourself?

Today, I hope you will imagine what kinds of books will do that a for your own precious ones, while remembering that books can have that power in your own lives, too. Joy and I spoke today about the significant ways one of the chapters inspired us in our own lives. Of course, I had to share this book with all of my children so that they, too, could be carried away to the worlds that first captured my own imagination.

Enjoy!

You can find Joy’s podcast @: speakingwithjoy and everything else@ Joyclarkson.com

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Awaking Wonder: A Chat in My Library

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Some of our most beautiful memories of homeschooling  are snowy Colorado days complete with a cozy fire, a cup of hot chocolate or tea, a great read-aloud,  and my pajama-clad children entering into the worlds of peoples we met through periods of history, rousing tales and dramatic stories of life.

Today, and the next few days, you will hear me and some of my children share about the reality of our own lives through the years. My adult children are quite passionate and convicted about what they think about the education they had as well as having a philosophy of what truly engages a heart, soul and mind.

It has been fun for me to hear them and understand how like minded we are, after all these years together, about the heart of education, the center of discipleship and the forming of life purposes. I hope you will enjoy this and ponder what we say for your own life.

There are many ways to live and a variety of means to educate. I do not think ours is the only good way, but I do believe that God led us to some central issues in understanding the ways to shape home life, and to enflesh a life of faith in and through the moments in our home so that it became a living faith in my own children’s lives.

Enjoy—share it with your friends and listen all week and I think you will indeed find encouragement for your year ahead.

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God Is Our Best Parenting Example

God is the greatest Giver of love. He is a provider—look at nature; the garden of Eden with all its animals and colors and food crafted for our pleasure. He gave us ideals, as we see through scripture. He saw that we were lost and falling and ultimately, He came amongst us, giving up all the comforts and honors He held in heaven to serve, wash feet, feed, laugh with, and encourage His own precious disciples.

Our life with God is not measured in the rules or goals or laws that He gives. But, as the Author of these ideals, and bound up in His love and care for us, God uses truth to work on our hearts. He demonstrates Himself through Christ in a relationship with us as a servant, a husband for the bride of Christ, a friend of the common people with whom He broke bread.

He comes as the servant king, the one who lays down His life, the one who is humble and meek.  As a good parent, God gives us wisdom and guidance so that our lives will be healthy, strong, protected.

So God becomes our pattern for parenting. He served and loved and sacrificed and gave of Himself, so that we would long to be holy out of our gratitude and reverence and love for He who provided us with everything. He called His disciples to serve, to love, to give, and to be holy. He did instruct them and train them, but it is no wonder they wanted to follow them to their deaths. He gave them true life, beauty, and love that filled their deepest needs and longings to live a purposeful life.

And so after three years of intense friendship, when he said, "Greater love has no one than this, that a man lays down his life for his friend," they had heard it, seen if modeled, felt the benefit of it, seen the integrity of it in their teacher, and so they willingly embraced this high ideal.

Consequently, it is not in getting the rules right or in defining all of the rules and theology that will make our children want to serve God. It is in laying down our life for them, serving them, listening to them, loving who God made them within the context of a call to holiness, that will secure in them a desire to love God with all of their hearts. By seeing our love, they will more easily understand and receive God's love, as it will already be familiar to their hearts and brains.

How might you show your children the love of Christ anew, this weekend?

Adventuring Together, Greta Eskridge: Pleasures, Worlds to Explore-

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As I opened my eyes from sleep early one morning, immediately, a smile covered my heart. A dear friend and her daughter were training to visit me from London, while I lived in Oxford, to explore a food fair near my house. Happy to my toes to be with sweet friends and to make memories together was just the best anticipation to paint my day with delight.

Even taking this photo was a sweet memory—Ice cream—across from the French Cafe with wonderful cheeses and bites to savor. Creating fun and cultivating advanture has carried us through many a lonely season of life.

“Just think of all the people yet to be known, the places yet to explore, the delectable tastes waiting for us to enjoy!” So one of my sweet ones said one early one morning as we ventured out into the wide world.

Living in Oxford suited me because there was a new delight every day, a story to imagine, and I purposed to enjoy every minute, every day, every new friend—even the Ice cream truck! :) Part of the fun comes from a heart ready to enjoy life—a commitment that brings great pleasure.

What do you miss the most right now? What is the first thing you will do when we are back to normal schedules and are free to do what we want?

How delighted I was to have the opportunity to have a conversation with Gretta Eskridge about her new book, Adventuring Together. Her vibrant life is filled with ideas of how to explore the wide world with our family and friends.

Maybe it is personality. Maybe it is just boredom, But one of the things I miss most right now is travel, adventure! Since I moved overseas over 40 years ago, I have been traveling, advanturing, creating fun and enjoying life with my sweet ones. It has ended up being such a great legacy for all of us. Our worlds have been broadened, our values have been stretched, our tastes have been widened, and our understanding for all sorts of people has been enlarged.

We are always in the midst of planning the next trip or adventure. The world gives limitless possibilities for places to discover, people to meet, experiences to have. Moving 19 times, 7 times internationally shaped some of our values and loves. (Of course, I would give anything to go visit my sweet grandchildren and Sarah and Thomas.)

Recently, a friend and I had a long phone call remembering a legacy we left our children that came about almost by chance. We had piled our seven children into her suburban several years in a row when our husbands were working and traveled together over many parts of the United States. Most of our time, we stayed in the homes of generous families that we had met online and we  look back now and realize that it gave our children first hand experiences at seeing historical heroes from a more personal point of view. And we made great friends with those we met along the way.

Our trip was so deeply rewarding, a sweet time of friendships for all of us, and mind and soul expanding, that we did it several more times through the years. We so enjoyed reading about historical heroes and then seeing their homes, walking through the rooms where they had lived courageous stories and expanding all of our souls with inspirational knowledge. I realize that not all people are able to arrange this sort of trip, but there are so many creative ways we can experience and see the lives of others in an authentic way. 

Is traveling with your children part of your family culture? Seeing, handling, touching, acting out, experiencing, reading outloud---these are the live experiences that made history feel real for our family. Since my children were very little, I purposed to plan ways they could really experience what we studied.

Because we still worked with many overseas, missions was not just be a story that someone else lived and we only read about.  I wanted my children to experience being in a foreign country and eating foreign food and hearing a foreign language, while seeing the great needs of others. Seeing the needs of others created thankfulness for what we had in our own home.

Of course, we can be on mission in our own countries, too. Serving in a soup kitchen or babysitting at a center for battered women makes needs more real, because children get to put a name to a face that they can pray for. Seeing how blessed we are as Americans is important, but when a child sees homeless or hungry children, they have a whole new understanding of poverty.

For this reason, since my oldest children were very small, I intentionally planned and purposed to give them real life experiences so they could have a more realistic understanding of those we studied. It is why we have been such travelers. Reading about historical figures is inspiring, but seeing places they lived or cities they built or where their battles were fought gives everyone a more realistic, concrete understanding of the ways of life, physical limitations, difficulties and also blessings of the people they have been reading about.

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I'm Drowning: Feeling Small, Insignificant & Invisible

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Tonight I feel small in the scheme of things. The world seems so caught up in the news of Corona Virus, factions, disturbances, impressive people--who has the most numbers, who is the smartest, the most beautiful, the most successful., and what are the most dramatic stories.

What is the loudest voice? The most commanding person. As to grand people…Who is organized and on top of things and has it together? There are some who pretend to have all the answers and who are confident that their way is right.

I cannot compete with those people or with other's standards. Comparing myself to anyone else always brings me up short. I must live happily in my own skin and live faithfully in the story I have been given—my portion, David calls it.

A wise friend said, "Never compare yourself to others because you will either come up short and feel inadequate or you will think yourself greater and be filled with false pride."

So very true.

Be still and know that I am God, He says.

Peace be with you, not as the world gives, He says.

Nothing can ever separate me from your love, He says.

But when I look to His ways, and observe what He has made, and listen to the voice of creation, I see that He has made even the insignificant, a small vibrant red leaf, a thing of glory, beauty to behold, heavenly art in which my heart and soul is amazed. In His hands, the small becomes significant. And so I take hope.

Those who humble themselves will be exalted. The little boy with only 5 fish and loaves fed 5000. The idealistic youth defeated the giant. The poor widow with meager drops of oil,  fed the famous prophet Elijah.

And so, my comfort is not in who I am, or how well I am doing, or in what I accomplish. My strength is in the one who is strong. My miracles are dependent on the God who threw the stars and galaxies into place.

Whatever task is ahead of me, if He is the wisdom for that task, or the strength to complete it or the understanding to show the way, then I know I will find the miracle I need.

Always, this has been my success--He is adequate, I am dependent on Him. I am weak but He is strong.

He, the heavenly Father who created, provided, instructed, saved, redeemed and forgave, and is preparing a place in heaven for me--He is the one who is committed to my well being, He who began a good work will complete it.

And so in my smallness, I find rest, quiet, comfort. It is not my striving that will accomplish His will, but it is in trusting in His provision.

Again, He whispers to me, "Be still and know that I am God."

I am quiet. I listen. I look at what He has made  in all the small corners of my world, and through these glorious works, I am aware of His glory and comforted by His adequacy and strength and I know that all will be well, because He is with me, and He is big enough.

It is in wondering about His gentleness, entering into the imagination of what His heart would speak to me, I find the love and assurance that I need.

Awaking Wonder is an opening our hearts and the hearts of our children to His presence, His gentle love, His patience, His reality amidst the storms of life. Awaken wonder, live into His light and love today.

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Awaking Wonder: Where Do I Start? Building a Philosophy & Podcast

My wonderful, kindred spirits share how to lay foundations for using home as a place for education.

Jennie, Gretchen, me and Misty

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"Greater love has no mom than this, that she lay down her life for her child."

All mamas have moments of insecurity:

Can I really do this? Am I adequate? Will I cover all the bases and fill in all the holes? Will I pick the right curriculum? Am I doing enough? These are normal questions as educating our children at home are important issues.

All parents are teachers, whether they recognize it or not. We open (or close) worlds to our children—nature and creation, words and stories, manners and values, faith and the reality of God, virtues and character. Education is about much more than public, private or homeschooling. It is about recognizing the personhood of our children—their hearts, minds, souls and bodies and then making plans and purposes to help them grow healthy and strong in their capacity in these areas. We awaken wonder by opening these worlds with great resources, a loving foundation in relationships, authentic faith as a model and as a message and so much more.

A truly educated person, one who can think and reason, who loves to learn, who is engaged in ideas, books and has a love for learning is not that way because of a perfect educational experience. Motivation and a love from learning all start in the heart-the place where dreams are made, inspiration is given, an affection grows between the child and teacher. Understanding how to motivate the heart must be the goal for the mom who wants to truly influence her child.

Join me today as I speak with my inner circle friends who hold a philosophy defined in my new book, Awaking Wonder, as they share their beginnings—how to develop a philosophy of Education and where to start.

I hope our conversation will encourage you.

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Queen Elizabeth & I Wish You A Wonder-filled Week & Podcast

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As long as I can remember, I have been celebrating Sunday afternoon tea time. Often, when I lived in Oxford, (oh how I miss it), I would go with a friend or child to a favorite place where burials and royalty had walked in the vaults of the ancient church. Warm scones, fresh out of the oven, were as big as a fist, and always accompanied by clotted cream and raspberry or blackberry jam. The tea was so strong it could shake up the drowsiness of an exhausted soldier—but just to my taste.

Why have I kept rigorously faithful to such rhythms in my personal life? Because I know that the more I take care to keep rhythms, to celebrate beauty, to keep meeting with loved ones, I will probably be more likely to hold fast to my faith during hard times. Intensionally filling my cup, regularly at the same rate at which my energy and emotions are depleted helps me to be able to keep giving to others.

Tea time this afternoon brought to mind one of my favorite live heroes—Queen Elizabeth.

1. I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

2. Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

3. When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat, instead they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

4. It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

 5. To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

6.The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the sounds of the heart of its average men and women.

Take a little tea today, reflect on these wonderful words of wisdom and commit to living a life of wonder and wisdom.

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There's Not Just One Right Way, or One Right Decision & Podcast

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Stripes or spots? quiet or loud? Intellectual or artistic? orderly or inspirational? driven or gentle? Humorous or serious?

The more we can accept ourselves, our personality, our story, our strengths and weakness, our flaws and our passions, the more contentment we will nurture in our lives. And when we are content, we are able to accept and affirm others for their uniqueness and for their individual responses to life. The more we like who God made us, the more secure our children will be.

"Do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed." Romans 12: 1

Today was filled with minor errors and even moments where I was beyond my capabilities in what some might require of me. Expectations from my publicists, my publishers, my social media assistants, my administrator, my life—on my computer, on social media, on my launch, on some issues at home, on my car that had a tire issue. But, today is still a day when I can breathe in peace, accept my limitations and trust God.

Not all people will home educate, not all people work, not all children are easy, not all marriages are the same. But all have value and can be redeemed and have value in God’s capable hands. To live within our limitations with contentment is to find peace.

Early one morning, my chatterbox little boy ran into the room, jumped on the couch next to me, snuggled and said with a sparkle, "Come on, admit it, mama! You must love me the best because I am the most fun of all your kids."

Followed by, "Nuh huh! She loves me best because I help her the most and you just get into trouble!"

And so the conversation escalated. My answer, "I love you the Nathanest! I love you the Joy-est!" You each have a place in my heart that only you can fit.

Personality--what a strange animal!

Perhaps you prefer one type of personality, and some personalities are surely easier to deal with. But the reality is, all personalities are holy to the Lord.

God gave me two introverts and two extroverts and a variety of different issues in between to shepherd. He expanded my soul and stretched me by challenging me to look at them from His eyes.

We live in a world that values conformity. We want to use our force, our power, our authority to make people, and our children, fit into the box. Be good. Be tame. Be moral. Don't bring attention to yourself. Don't contend or question the norm.

I remember a time when Nathan had brought some boys home from a class he was taking. A mile high pile of chocolate chip cookies, just out of the oven, was the enticement for them to stay around in my kitchen and jabber. One of the boys always called me, "Dude, mama." From him, it was a compliment. I had attained approval.

As they were talking, they said, "We thought Nathan was so weird when he first came into our class. He walked up to the teacher and introduced himself and said he was looking forward to being in the class. We all thought, 'Everyone knows you don't speak to a teacher in front of everyone else."

He then went on to say, "All of us learned by third grade to fit in, don't do anything that would call attention to yourself or you would be bullied by the whole group, all of your peers gang up against anyone who is different---everyone is supposed to fit in. So when Nathan comes and doesn't care what people think and makes friends with everyone, even the teachers, it blew our grid of norm.Truly, for a while, everyone thought he was a weirdo."

Quietness but fire underneath fits the description of one child, while steady Freddy, slow but dependable; funny, in your face charming, another. All have pushed my buttons through the years, but they have humbled me, too, in a good way. I now know for sure that I cannot control my children--they are free agents with a will and desires and dreams, all unique to the call on their lives and the personalities God gave them.

But, no matter the personality, I am called to shepherd them to love God, to teach and train them to have the character underneath that they will need to complete the tasks God gives them to do in their life time.

Most important, though, as a mom, I am called to control but to release them into His hands, as they are, to live out their uniqueness in a world that needs them to sparkle as God made them.

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