Peace…
“You’ll Know When The Yoke Fits”
Sweet sisters- June 18, 2009
I’ve been in turmoil for the last two months, trying to decide if we were going to participate in Classical Conversations. On paper, it looks like a great fit for us but for some reason I just didn’t feel any peace about it. Then, on Wednesday, I read this post at In The Heart of Her Home. The lines that I underlined below really spoke to me.
So, here’s my answer to the swelling number of emails asking me how to choose what to teach: pray about it, research your options, know what’s in all those boxes, pray about it, talk to your husband, pray about it, and then trust God to lead you in the right direction. His yoke is easy and his burden is light. You’ll know when the yoke fits. And when it does, don’t let anyone tell you that it’s an inferior yoke. It’s the yoke God himself made for you. (underlining for emphasis by me)
And once I read the above, especially “His y0ke is easy and his burden is light. You’ll know when the yoke fits” it was all crystal clear to me. Kip and I had a long, long discussion that night and decided to go ahead with Tapestry of Grace. I bought it in the spring and I’ve been SO excited about it. A big part of my hesitation with CC was the disappointment in giving up TOG as I’ve been waiting for over a year to use it. Once we had hashed out all the pros and cons, our weekly schedule and came to the conclusion that TOG was indeed the right fit for us- I felt such a complete peace.
I spent several hours on Thursday planning for the upcoming year. Math, Language Arts and Science really don’t take any planning- we just proceed through the chosen books a lesson/day at a time. But I did need to spend time wading through the TOG manual, picking and choosing what we will use for the upcoming year. (The manual covers grades K-12 so you need to choose the books and activities that are right for your age student). TOG will cover lots of Bible, History, Geography and good bit of Fine Arts.
The first nine weeks will cover Creation through Moses, the Ancient Egyptians and the Tower of Babel. Essentially Genesis-Exodus in the Bible. I love how TOG weaves Biblical and Secular history together.
I put all our books for the first 9 weeks away in this drawer so that they will be fresh and “new” to the kids when we start school in September.
