Mar. 14, 2007
Latest Coaching Exercise
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Sorry to miss a Tuesday posting, my day for updating this blog, but I spent the day in the lodge at NorthStar, while my children experienced their first day downhill skiing. The lowest temp our car thermometer registered was 28 degrees, but the children began to shed clothing as early as 9:30am and when we left at 4pm, the temperature was close to 60 degrees. The sun shone bright and the clear blue sky meant our first experience on the slopes was a success. Since exiting and entering the gondola is enough to throw me off balance, I didn't ski. This meant I guarded home-base inside the lodge and kept track of the abundance of gloves, sunscreen, sunglasses, and jackets while finding many hours to read and write, despite the abundance of piped-in rock music. It amazes me how much I got done, including completing an assignment my coach gave me last time we spoke. She told me to list IN ORDER the seven priorities of our home-school. Now coming up with seven wasn't difficult, but ORDERING them as in "I need to let number five go because two is more important" was difficult. All deserve number one! I must conquer every mountain every day!! This, however, is the result of the exercise: When our children leave home we care that they are (IN ORDER): 1. Co-Creators. Made in God's image, they are co-creators with him. We want their attitude to be one that knows what they can do to make their world a better place instead of focused on what they can get out of it. 2. Subjects. That they would stand under and accept God's natural boundaries in life. This affects how they eat, when they rest, when they work, how they spend money and when they have sex (ehem...). 3. A Wells. May they feel connected in a healthy way to their family before they are able to make their own. We want them to learn from this family how to treat and live in their future family as well as nurturing their identity as a Wells with fun and connection. 4. Cultured. We want them to recognize, appreciate, and encourage objective beauty and goodness in all the arts, believing "artists are the canaries in the mineshaft of culture" and preserving objective beauty and goodness will help preserve the best of our culture. 5. Conservationists. That they would know the difference between what God provides for our good pleasure vs. what man makes for profit at the expense of others. This involves where and how we shop, supporting local, small farms, the entertainment we choose, etc. 6. Individuals with confidence and capabilities to pioneer their own way with God in the time and place they find themselves. 7. Hospitable, believing practicing and valuing hospitality and providing home for others is a vital part of ministering to others. I think this means that if I give in and visit McDonald's, I haven't fallen off the conservation bandwagon forever, especially if its on the way home from Music in the Mountains. But I don't know if I'll ever serve soft drinks, even when the basketball team comes over for pizza, but fair-trade tea instead. We'll see. |
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