 (see also Full Human Life)
“Fulness of living, joy and life, depend, far more than we know upon the establishment of these relations.” * “Relation to Almighty God. –– I have set before the reader the proposition that a human being comes into the world, not to develop his faculties nor to acquire knowledge, nor even to earn his living, but to establish certain relations; which relations are to him the means of immeasurable expansion and fulness of living. We have touched upon two groups of these relations––his relations to the universe of matter and to the world of men. To complete his education, I think there is but one more relation to be considered––his relation to Almighty God. How many children are to-day taught to say at their mother's knee, to learn from day to day and from hour to hour, in all its fulness of meaning––'My duty towards God is to believe in Him, to fear Him, and to love Him with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength; to worship Him, to give Him thanks, to put my whole trust in Him, to call upon Him, to honour His holy name and His word, and to serve Him truly all the days of my life'?” * “What we are concerned with is the fact that we personally have relations with all that there is in the present, all that there has been in the past, and all that there will be in the future––with all above us and all about us––and that fulness of living, expansion, expression, and serviceableness, for each of us, depend upon how far we apprehend these relationships and how many of them we lay hold of.” * “Most people live a poor maimed life, as though they carried about one or other mortified limb, dead in itself and a burden to the body. But they do not realise that their minds are slow and their hearts heavy for want of the knowledge which is life.” * “There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. The search we make for this quality, in our own lives, is the central search of any person, and the crux of any individual person's story. It is the search for those moments when we are most alive.” ~ Christopher Alexander Examen: “In how far does fulness of living depend on the establishment of relations?”Explain how “education is the handmaid of religion.” Is there a part of me that is no longer maimed or dead because of exposure to this method? ~~~~~~~ Fullness of living: Charlotte M. Mason, School Education, 3:75. Relation to Almighty God: 3:89. What we are concerned: 3:185–86. Most people live: Charlotte M. Mason, Ourselves, 4:79–80 Bk.II. There is a central: Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), X. In how far: School, 3:255. Day 94 Fullness of Living meditation/100 days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025
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