"Crunchy" Christians?
If you ever feel badly that you don't bake your own bread or that you allow your children to play sports, you'll enjoy Cindy's post on Crunchy Cons and Baseball. (For the background on Cindy's post, stop by Carmon's blog to read about Crunchy Muffins.)
For those who know better, delight in how God is leading your family as you seek to serve Him in holiness. For those who are still sure I'm heading up the CopyCat "Put God in a Box Club" Club, just thought you might like to know my husband and I like baseball.
Last week a homeschool mom asked me if I wanted to learn to bake bread. Whoosh, did that bring back a flood of emotions. Of course, I KNOW how to bake bread; I have been homeschooling for 20 years. I know how to buy wheat and grind it and make it. But I don’t. Not at this time. I gave all my Y2k wheat away. I didn’t want that sitting around making me feel guilty for 40 years. At first I told her about having boys and no time. Then she told me about a mom whose boys make all the family bread. Yes, my boys COULD in a pinch be the breadmakers and they DO do all the housework etc. Oh, she said are you the family that does BASEBALL. I could see immediately that I had been kicked out of the club. Yes, since Doug Phillips has never written about BASEBALL, it doesn’t make the homeschool cut.I thought it was quite amusing, especially since a number of people seem to think I'm trying to form a Elite Club of Cookie-Cutter CopyCats. Not sure where they got that notion, but it ain't the truth. That's what happens when people read into things via a computer screen. You can't win for losing.
For those who know better, delight in how God is leading your family as you seek to serve Him in holiness. For those who are still sure I'm heading up the CopyCat "Put God in a Box Club" Club, just thought you might like to know my husband and I like baseball.
posted by Crystal Paine at 5:47 PM
4 Comments:
Crystal.
Rather than leave a lengthy comment on various blogs that I read this on, I blogged about it yesterday. Sort of in a humoruos way to say that we're not "cookie cutter" homeschoolers either. But I do share some of the philosphical traits of a crunchy con.
Here's the link
http://spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com/2006/03/are-you-crunchy.html
Nancy Wilson has a good chapter about this in The Fruit of Her Hands (canonpress.org)--about a tendency that women sometimes have to turn "method" into gospel. She notes women's tendencies to "talk shop" and emphasize methods over principles.
I also didn't realize eating granola made you a crunchy person! I have never worn birkenstocks, but I love granola!
The T2K comment made me smile.. I knew so many families who stored up on so much wheat and other supplies to prepare for the Y2K "disaster." I think my family was the only one in our church who did nothing.
I love baseball too. We are big Red Sox fans. I hope my son will like it when he gets older. I would love to go to his games.
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