{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler","title":"Daily Faithfulness","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":891,"description":"Festina Lente, or Faithfulness\npart of the Education Is for Life series\nThis series was inspired by Chrisopher Perrin’s great webinars on the principles of classical education. One of my favorites so far was his “deep dive” into the principle Festina Lente.\nErasmus wrote of this proverb in his Adagia:\nIf you weigh carefully the force and the sentiment of our proverb, its succinct brevity, how fertile it is, how serious, how beneficial, how applicable to every activity of life, you will easily come to the opinion that among the huge number of sayings you will find none of greater dignity.\nSo, let’s apply this motto maybe not to every activity of life, but at least those that make up a large percentage of our days. These principles are for life – not just for schooling.\nI must admit, though, I was tempted to veer into school talk when I read Erasmus’ essay on Festina Lente, because he clearly sides with a “better late than early” mindset. If you’ve ever been tempted toward an “accelerated” mindset, read sections 28 & 29 in this short essay and be encouraged to not push your children before they are ready – early academics is not classical.\nListen to this post:\nFestina Lente\nThis phrase, Festina Lente, juxtaposes both briskness and plodding. We should make haste because we should not be stagnant or lethargic, but we also should go forward slowly because, as Erasmus put it,\nThings that are foreseen and provided for by slow and gentle forethought are safer than what is hurried into action by hot and hasty heads.\nSo the maxim of festina lente opposes both laziness and impulsiveness. It requires both action and thought. It steers us from both sides of the ditch.\nFaithfulness\nA poem Cindy Rollins through the years has oft quoted is\nLittle drops of water,\nlittle grains of sand,\nmake the mighty ocean\nand the beauteous land.\nAnd the little moments,\nhumble though they may be,\nmake the mighty ages\nof eternity.\nMost of what we as mothers do all day are little grains of sand:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WX5WTUqyTtAsJnVQiNFanppjmz2X_b7p_7UiXaIuuDU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMGFi/NjEwZjdhMGUwMzZl/ZDk2NzA5YzQ3NWJl/ZDJlYS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}