Run, don't walk, over to Elizabeth Foss' site and read this article. It's beautiful, and I promise, uplifting. I was going to write a post on this very topic, but she said it better than I ever could. It's one of the best pieces I've read lately, and it had me in tears.

God has very much dealt with me in past days about living on purpose, vs. reactively. About taking time for things we enjoy as a family collectively and individually. About not taking on burdens or tasks that were never mine to take....about remembering that time is too fleeting and it's my fortunate job to love my husband, raise my children and that no one else can do it for them as well as I can. The rest can wait. Thank you Elizabeth, for wording it so eloquently and allowing God to use you this way. I so appreciate it. We are finding the 'joy' in our homeschool again.

It's been a wearisome week. We received the terrible news that a cousin of mine was murdered last week. This is on the heels of my grandfather's death, so I would especially covet prayers for my uncle who lost both a father and son within weeks of each other. Our only hope is in knowing they are both with Jesus now. I wonder how people get through times like this without that hope.