Who needs time to think when we can just rush around accomplishing the unaccomplishable....? ME! After several weeks of busyness, emotional cartwheels (refer to my last blog about my dear grandma) and just "doing what needs to get done" I now, have had the chance to sit down and study the Word of God (Big Bite size chunks! yum!) and reflect. In my reflections, I have realized that in the greater scheme of God's plan, I really just need to trust Him more and rely on the fact that He loves me, and that if I remain in Him, He will remain in me (book of John) AND I must trust in the fact that, as He remains in me, He will accomplish His tasks through me, tasks that He deems necesscary. He is in control! For the homeschooling mother in me this means that I really DON'T have to cross all the t's and dot all the i's. I have learned this fact in greater measure as I have now begun to homeschool "set 2" of my 5 children. Let me explain my child "sets"...God gave us 5 beautiful children, 3 of whom were born almost 1 year apart from each other-set 1. Then God blessed us 5 years later with 2 more children  born 1 & 1/2 years apart from each other-set 2.  Set one is advancing into Highschool, as my oldest son is 15! Set 2 is just starting off into proper grammar school. I am enjoying the fact that God is in control and sometimes things fall through the cracks for a purpose! according to His greater plan He did not needs those thing to be done. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy doing school, we do write papers and study languages, ect,  but, I am learning how to enjoy the process of teaching them truth as we move about our daily lives instead of just accomplishing mulitple the procedures of "the program" . I am learning to seek a balance between our "schooling" and our "real life".  I have realized that taking my children to visit their great-grandma instead of a doing "full day of school" has accomplished more in their hearts than 15 memorized Bible facts! BTW- we can do our Bible memory verses "on the fly"! We can read that great history novel together in the car with books on tape. We can see and discuss the greatness of God as viewed through Science & Creation as we move about our day.....So my prayer is...Lord help me trust you more & Love others like you would have me love them....AND then help me accomplish my daily tasks as You remain in me and ....

SILLY STORY

I was with all 5 of my children at a park. I was holding the baby, who was about 1, in my arms and the others were milling about close by. I was trying to gather them so we could head toward the car so we could go home.  I couldn't find child #4!!! I became worried & started asking franticly where the 3 year old was.....My 3 older children all looked at me funny and said, "Mom, you're holding his hand!?!" ".......oh...... "  It's been 5 years since this incident and still they torment me with it's memory! As the saying goes, some things are worth remembering......for some!