1. How do the truths
in this chapter apply to your personal spiritual life?
In that by letting go of pride and humbling
myself as a servant, only then will I be strengthening my relationship with
Christ.
2. How do the truths
in this chapter apply to your leadership role within Classical Conversations?
We are not Master tutors or Directors or
Managers…we are servants of the Lord. We
are mothers, and daughters, and sisters, and friends journeying together – none
higher up than another…
3. What parallels in
literature do you see that apply or reference these same truths from this
chapter?
During the practicum I attended in June as
we were working through different subjects using the classical model, one of
the ladies brought up caring for a baby and how to work through that
classically. The discussion turned to
how in the old days, the new mother’s mom, grandma, and maybe even great grandma
came along side her during that initial grammar stage of caring for a
newborn; and how as a new mother, one
was able to glean the information and knowledge from those that came before
her. In our current society, however, we
are expected to (or expect from ourselves to) skip the grammar and be
immediately in the dialectic and possibly even the rhetoric stage as soon as
the baby is born. Too many times we
expect from ourselves to be the “super mom” to know it all and that asking for
or accepting help during our grammar stage is a sign of weakness. But this should instead be seen as a sign of
strength.
~Holli
~Holli
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