Beautiful Homeschooling

The beauty of homeschooling is the fact that you have the time to shape your children after the heart of the Lord. This doesn't mean your kids are perfect. What it does mean is that day after day, year after year, they begin to think like the Lord thinks and not as their peers from school think. After graduating two from homeschooling, I can see the beautiful lasting effects that our home school years have had on them. The things they say, they way they live their lives, can not be faked after a certain age in life. There comes a time, in every child's life that they have the power to completely decide what they want and how they will live and you have very little to say about it. And when you see your kids freely choose, what you have taught them all their lives, there is a beautiful satisfaction that you can't describe. Homeschooling for me was for the heart and not for academics, although that is certainly important. Home schooled children who have not been smothered, but have been allowed to grow in the Lord and had trust given to them, yield a beautiful fruit. Was it worth all the years of grammar and worry. Yes it was. Did I always believe this? No. I was unsure at times when I was surrounded with mothers who did not share my thoughts. Watching my two oldest today, I am sure glad I didn't follow the crowd.


Notes to myself

This was brought to mind today by India's testimony to me, about her conversation with Keisha. Remember how you teared up and knew you had taught her right and how you knew letting her disagree with you, would work it's way around to her knowing you were right. Cuz you trusted her to see the right? This post was inspired by that moment with India today and by your indecision to homeschool Wyatt as an only child. It will be worth the 18 years of teaching another child and the Lord will work out the only child thing. The Lord knows all. It was a touching reminder to continue this journey to homeschool.