"Four years of high-school Latin would dramatically arrest the decline in American education... Nothing so enriches the vocabulary, so instructs about English grammar and syntax, so creates a discipline of the mind, an elegance of expression, and serves as a gateway to the thinking and values of Western civilization as mastery of a page of Virgil or Livy (except perhaps Sophocles’s Antigone in Greek or Thucydides’ dialogue at Melos)."
George Grant’s blog entry for today was very timely for me as I’ve had several weeks of forced inactivity due to swelling in my knee. Here’s an excerpt:
Sin is pleasant--but unprofitable. Affliction is unpleasant--but profitable. By affliction, the Lord separates the sin that He hates--from the soul that He loves. He sends affliction--to take the dirt of the world out of the hearts of His children! "Before I was afflicted I went astray--but now I keep Your word!" Psalm 119:67
There have been many profitable lessons in these several weeks, and great blessings as family, church family, and friends have served us in so many ways. Humbling, but tremendously heartening.
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;his mercies never come to an end;they are new every morning;great is your faithfulness."The Lord is my portion," says my soul,"therefore I will hope in Him."~ Lamentations 3:22-24
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