Monday Ponderings {May 15}

We say of some people, that they are perfectly transparent, a good and beautiful thing. We say, everything is clear as day about them. We call them sincere, that is, clear (as honey free from wax). We all value these people, “open as the day.” They are shining as a clear, clean lamp, letting forth light. Do we ask ourselves- Have we this single eye? The answer is to be found, not in anxious enquiries into our motives and feelings, but in out-shining of the light in simple, humble, pleasant doing of that duty which comes next.

Charlotte Mason, “Simplicity” essay, Scale How Meditations

Monday Ponderings {October 17th}

Unity is strength and happiness; separateness is weakness and misery.

Charlotte Mason, Scale How Meditations

Monday Ponderings {September 19th}

We all know that there are few surer tests of character than the way rebuke is sustained. The meek, frank soul accepts reproof with unclouded brow and simple gratitude; the ungentle soul resents.

Charlotte Mason, Scale How Meditations