The Family

"In the family circle is to be found everything that is highest and most sacred for the people and for the poor. It is the benign influence of the family circle which alone can help the people and it is this aid which is today most urgently needed. . . . From the moral and religious point of view the tie which binds father, mother and children is at the same time the source of all views and feelings which lead man through faith and love to all that is exalted and eternal, and prepares him in the earthly enjoyment of the love of father and mother for sonship with God, and through the obedience of faith in father and mother, exalts him to the obedience of faith in God."

~Johann Pestalozzi, 1818

Swiss Educational Reformer

Lewis Flint Anderson, ed., citing "Pestalozzi's address on his 72nd birthday (January 12, 1818)," Pestalozzii (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1974), 142-44.

She's a little messy, just a quickie drawing, but she's cute :)

<3 Have a great week everybody!

God is so good

My Heart

My Sister

My love

I pray for love I pray for light I pray for peace of mind.
May my prayer for you be true
To lead you safe and kind.

I pray for hope I pray for peace I pray for wings of flight--
When through a door your heart will soar
Far yonder toil and strife.

I pray for beauty and for strength I pray with all my heart.
Oh how I pray for light of day
To penetrate the dark.

What pity I cannot do more for it is not my place.
Oh please be strong and carry on
Though tears stream down your face.
Oh please be strong and carry on
Until you find His grace.

Sweet Dreams

And have a wonderful week!

Sketches

I couldn't be bothered to clean these up. I kind of like their 'flaws'. Enjoy :)

Have a great week :)