Day 57 Deferred

"Waiting," Edgar Degas

(see also By Degrees)

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“Fitting and Vital Ideas. ––Again, there are some ideas of the spiritual life more proper than others to the life and needs of the child. Thus, Christ the Joy-giver is more to him than Christ the Consoler.
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And there are some few ideas which are as the daily bread of the soul, without which life and growth are impossible. All other teaching may be deferred until the child's needs bring him to it; but whoever sends his child out into life without these vital ideas of the spiritual life, sends him forth with a dormant soul, however well-instructed he may be in theology.”
 
 
 
Examen:  What am I doing to understand “fitting and vital?” How comfortable am I with teaching as the child’s needs dictate in essential matters?

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Fitting and Vital:  Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education, 1:347.

​Day 57 Deferred meditation/100 Days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025

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