I have a "Google alert" set up so I can be notified if there is ever a mention of "unschooling" around the world......amazing what technology can do for us.  I have actually had a few pop up lately. 

I love to read these articles just to see how other families around the globe are homeschooling and how sometimes the press can be so worried about this misunderstood term we sometimes attach to our homeschooling style.  Tonight, I was blown away by a story out of the Jerusalem Post.  The words in my title above, were used by a homeschooling parent to describe what they do.  I think this is one of the most encompassing definitions I have ever read, and I loved it.  

"limud l'ein shiur"

 "this means both learning without classes, and also learning without measure"

Don't you just love that?  It really sums it up for me, although we may take an occasional class, our lifestyle here is certainly learning without measure.   Read the whole article here.  

 While I was on that page, I happened to notice an advertisement for an amazing development in the Negev.  I couldn't help but be reminded of a verse or two from Isaiah 35:

Isaiah 35

1 The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them,
      And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;
       2 It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice,
      Even with joy and singing.
      The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
      The excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
      They shall see the glory of the LORD,
      The excellency of our God.
       3 Strengthen the weak hands,
      And make firm the feeble knees.
       4 Say to those who are fearful-hearted,

      “ Be strong, do not fear!
      Behold, your God will come with vengeance,
      With the recompense of God;
      He will come and save you.”
       5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
      And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
       6 Then the lame shall leap like a deer,
      And the tongue of the dumb sing.
      For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness,
      And streams in the desert.
       7 The parched ground shall become a pool,
      And the thirsty land springs of water;
      In the habitation of jackals, where each lay,
      There shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
       8 A highway shall be there, and a road,
      And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.
      The unclean shall not pass over it,
      But it shall be for others.
      Whoever walks the road, although a fool,
      Shall not go astray.
       9 No lion shall be there,
      Nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it;
      It shall not be found there.
      But the redeemed shall walk there,
       10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return,
      And come to Zion with singing,
      With everlasting joy on their heads.
      They shall obtain joy and gladness,
      And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

God Bless your weekend and God Bless Israel! May we all live to see those streams in the desert.

Shalom,

Nancy

©Nancy K. Baetz

Homeschooling Is Life! 2006