Teaching From Rest

Book #7 for 2025

“Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler’s Guide to Unshakable Peace” by Sarah Mackenzie

Here are my favorite takeaways…

“Not an hour passes without the enormity of the task I have taken on bringing me to my knees. This work of homeschooling and raising hearts and souls and bodies is hard. It is more than I can do in my own strength. Even so, more than anything else, I desire to teach and mother in a way that pleases God. Some days that feels like feeding the five thousand. But he is not asking me to feed the five thousand; He just wants me to bring my basket of loaves and fish and lay them at His feet.” (pg. xiv)

“Rest is trusting that God‘s got this, even if I’m a mess, even if I’m not enough, even if I mess up every day. Because I do.” (pg. 4)

“Bring your loaves and your fish, even if you think them completely insufficient. They are insufficient. You are insufficient. But His grace is not. God is not limited by objective reality. His yoke is easy and His burden light.” (pg. 15)

“Maybe your task seems impossible. In fact, it probably is impossible! So is walking on water, and Jesus didn’t seem to strain much to help Peter do that.” (pg. 68)

“It takes a subtle paradigm shift to realize that part of our homeschool budget parentheses (of both time and money) ought to be set aside for the nurturing of our abilities as teachers of students we have been charged with. Make your own learning and growing a priority, and watch how that impacts the life of your homeschool.” (pg. 73)

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