I am a child of God, a gift to my parents and my country. I am a person of great value because God made me.
I ought to do my duty to obey God, to submit to my parents, to be of service to others, and to keep myself healthy with proper food and rest so my body is ready to serve. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. God has made me able to do everything required of me. I will resolve to keep a watch over my thoughts and choose what's right, even if it's not what I want. Charlotte Mason taught her students the motto I am, I ought, I can, I will. I am means that we can know ourselves and understand what we're really like. I ought means that we have a moral judge inside us that we feel we're subject to. It lets us know what our duty is and compels us to action. I can means that we have the ability to do what we feel is right. I will means that we resolve to do what our inner moral judge, the Holy Spirit, has urged us to do. |
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