 "Boy Reading Adventure Story," 1923 Norman Rockwell (see also Authority) “Ye Are not Your Own.––But if children are brought up from the first with this magnet––'Ye are not your own'; the divine Author of your being has given you life, and a body finely adapted for His service; He gives you the work of preserving this body in health, nourishing it in strength, and training it in fitness for whatever special work He may give you to do in His world,––why, young people themselves would readily embrace a more Spartan regimen; they would desire to be available, and physical transgressions and excesses, however innocent they seem, would be self-condemned by the person who felt that he was trifling with a trust. It would be good work to keep to the front this idea of living under authority, training under authority, serving under authority, a discipline of life readily self-embraced by children, in whom the heroic impulse is always strong.” Examen: What changes if I think of children as having the story of their lives written by a Divine Author? What changes for me? Have I noticed special work given me to do? ~~~~~~~ Ye are not: Charlotte M. Mason, School Education, 3:103 I Cor. 6:19-20 Day 69 Divine Author meditation/100 Days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025
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