Hestia Homeschool for Young Wild Women

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in midair stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.  

 Robert Frost  

Mandy skipped out of church this morning. The girls got up early and primped, and then walked down to the Baptist church for Sunday School, along with the Parr Twins.  They still like Sunday School very much, and enjoy the Youth Group and Children's Choir on Wednesday.  Sunday services they find stifling, though.   (Sometimes, like this morning, I told them they could not go to church unless they cleaned up the mess they made in the kitchen. They cleaned it up quickly...hehehe...reverse psychology works at times.  )  

Tabitha was excited. The Baptists have apparently made her An Official Member.  I do have to say they are very good with kids.  They also get up way too early. One of them calls every Sunday morning around seven thirty to see if Tabitha is coming to Sunday school.  ::::yawn:: Tabby adores the Sunday school ladies, but dislikes an elderly man who has taken it upon himself to glare at wiggling little girls in pews.  Of course, I have only her version about how The Throbbing Vein Man treats the little kids who are there without their parents.  He apparently halfway followed them to the restroom to make sure they were going there and not to play in the church. This seems somewhat  reasonable to me. I know my kid.  ROFL

Mandy went to Sunday School but chose not to go to Sunday Services and walked around, telling me later that she is closer to God outside in the lovely Spring Day.  I told her that is all very well and may be true, but if she tells me she is going to be one place that I need for her to be there and not somewhere else.  

 I agree with her, though. I find God in the outdoors more than church. What I find in church is community, and I tend to like that as well.   But this morning, standing transfixed by the cherry tree, watching Shelby take off her clothes and then pull down showers of cherry blossoms on herself.....I knew what Eden was...God was with Shelby, dancing in the petals:-)

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• #2 Comment from kgreenb101 
  4/11/05 9:24 AM | Permalink

  I agree! I feel the presence of God more outside than inside anyway....Besides, I was told if I didn't donate 10 percent of my income to the church that I was going to be denied extra blessings! I never knew believing in God had anything to do with money, but whatever it sure didn't change my mind-Keith
  
• #1 Comment from my78novata 
  4/11/05 6:24 AM | Permalink

  I wish one sunday morn you could come visit the Fellowship. People get up and walk around during services. there is breast feeding going on and children playing. Music dancing and yes I have seen people get up and go walking ou t on the five beautiful acres. Its very open and they all know that each has man faiths to choose from. They had youth group Sunday too. all after noon. Well anyway. It is nice to feel ifyou want to get up you can. We love the freedom there. I think Mandy would fit in and you guys too.