On Wisdom’s Path

Do you ever feel like you are just trudging along through the mud?  You are doing your best to take the next step when you really want to quit?   I have had one of those weeks.  I have been praying and praying about direction in a certain area of our homeschool and it seems that I have gotten no answers.  It seems to be getting harder and more difficult with every step I take.

Why don’t I get an answer?  Why doesn’t God speak to me and show me His will, His way in this situation?  Is there some sin in my life that is preventing me from hearing Him?

It’s dark and I need The Light.  Then I read, “Don’t doubt in the darkness what He has revealed in the light.”  There will be dark times, there will seasons of wilderness travel but I am not to doubt what He has already spoken to my heart.

Maybe I am not hearing my answer now because I already received my answer and now I just have to take a walk of faith.  After all, seeing is not believing - believing is seeing what you cannot see.  More accurately for this situation, cannot hear.

Don’t doubt in the darkness what He has revealed in the light.  -Gregg Harris

God doesn’t require a teaching certificate for parents, or even a diploma.  He demands no previous experience, special gifts, or talents.  But He does have His own school and training program.  In God’s school, the parent-teacher must first become a “student,” “follower,” and an “obeyer”.  God does not require perfection, but only a deliberate, conscious, step-by-step obedience to what He shows and teaches His students.  The parent-teacher is not required to reach a certain level of competence in obedience before he begins to teach his children, but rather he must keep developing in obedience as he or she teaches.  Learning and teaching are lifetime pursuits.  No mother ever reaches a point where she may stop learning and devote herself totally to teaching.  Learning and teaching go hand in hand.

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This is a quote from “A Mother’s Heart” by Jean Fleming

My intention in posting this is to give you encouragement on your path for being a Homeschool-Mom.  As we all know, it’s one of the most frustrating jobs but also one of the most rewarding jobs there is!

I was sharing with my husband a couple of weeks ago that I didn’t understand why I was so exhausted after teaching the boys.  I was comparing myself to friends that teach in the private and public sector then it hit me!  I am teaching “MY” children.  They are teaching someone else’s children.  As a mother we pour every fiber of our being into our children.  We use spiritual, emotional, physical and mental energy to teach them and train them in the way they should go.  It’s exhausting!  We need HIM to strengthen us in our inner man so that we are well able to accomplish HIS plan in our families.

How do you feel?  I’m just sad - not hopeless - just sad.  After President Obama’s swearing in, I just cried.  I was in the kitchen making lunch and I found myself crying.  The tears took me by surprise.  I tried to stop them but they just continued to flow.

As providence had ordained it, this morning our Bible reading was from 1st Samuel chapter 8, “The Israelites Want A King”.  We read it from Egermeier’s Bible Story Book. 

“And Samuel said, “he will take your sons to drive his chariots, be his horsemen, serve in his army, run his farm.  He will take your daughters to work in the palace.  He will take the best food you grow for himself and his servants.  Of all you own, he will take a tenth.  Then you will complain about the king you have chosen, and the Lord will not listen to you.”

 Is this the future for us?  He has promised Planned Parenthood that their agend is top priority.  He has promised to withdraw our troops from Iraq.  He has promised to lower our health care costs.  He has promised, will he fulfill?  Will we allow him?  What will his fulfilled promises mean to the future for our children?

What will we do?

Have you signed the The Parental Rights Petition to support the vital role of parents in the lives of their own children?  Have you signed The Freedom of Choice Act?  Have you joined The Presidential Prayer Team?

We NEED to sign the petitions, we NEED to send it to all of our friends, but if we do not humble ourselves and pray, God cannot heal our land.   We HAVE to pray!

My heart is sad but my spirit is full of hope!  Because even though the Lord will not listen to the complaints of the people because of the king THEY have chosen, His ears our open to our cries.  He is near to those who draw near to Him.  He is a shelter from the storm and a refuge for those who are needing rest.  

It’s amazing to me how God has orchestrated our homeschool days to line up so perfectly with what we needed today; this Inauguration Day.  We needed comfort, we needed strength, we needed hope.  Our kindergarten memory verse is:

 Psalm 121:2 “My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”

For second grade it is:

 Proverbs 18:10 “The name of the Lord is strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.”

So, though I am sad, I am not without hope.  The Lord will defend us and uphold us with His righteous right hand!

If you have or haven’t, you must go here and read Robin’s post on No More Oatmeal Kisses.  It will quicken you to redeem the time.  It will encourage you and strengthen you to remember to cry out to the Lord to “teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12).  The days are short and they seem to be growing shorter.

I’m off to grab more oatmeal kisses while I can!

Vision Forum was having a great 50% off sale!  So I bought myself a Christmas present and a book for dh.  DH got “Family Man, Family Leader” and I got “Passionate Housewives Desperate for God.”  I have been wanting this book since all the reviews started coming out in the past several months to a year ago.

Then through PaperBackSwap, I got “The Power of  A Positive Mom”.  My sister in law, Tre,  has this one and I’ve been curious about it also so when I saw it on PaperBackSwap, I had to get it!  Now I’m off to read…

I hope to have my own reviews of these two books up soon…