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Reenlisting on Faith, in Homeschooling

As the end of one school year is near, and I begin to ponder what is ahead in the next I like to reflect on the trials and triumphs gone past. This year has been a year of great change in the entire philosophy of our family’s homeschooling adventure. We took all the ways we had been approaching homeschooling and turned them upside down in an effort to remain faithful to the Lord. After three moves and three babies in a row my husband and I were ready to quit homeschooling, and embark on the “easier” road of letting the public school teach our children. After all, didn’t I deserve a break from the whining? I was leaning on my own understanding and the Lord was determined to show me another way. How often in the race of life do we just want to throw in the towel and say, “I’m done, this is not what I expected?” However, have we ever stopped to think that maybe we need to refocus, and reevaluate our situation? That is just what our family needed this year. Instead of quitting and giving up when things got tough we needed to lean on God’s wisdom, not our own. Only He will aide us in finishing whatever race he has placed before us. So after much debate between the Lord and I, well I was debating, He was waiting; we bent to His will and decided to change all our approaches and curriculum. This would entail us possibly needing to homeschool right through high school. Reason being, the curriculum we were using kept to a more traditional scope and sequence; whereas the new curriculum and style we were adopting would venture in a new direction. The children would still learn what they needed to; just at a different time. It would no longer give me a way out, if I felt the need to run from homeschooling; they couldn’t just melt back in. The change was needed to cultivate learning styles. That is a large part of homeschooling is it not? It was a tough lesson learned. Over the past several months, we have noticed a marked change in our oldest two children’s attitudes toward learning and studying. The housework has gotten done, meals cooked, babies nurtured and a faith that has increased ten fold. When I am asked how it all gets done, I can not always explain it, except to say the Lord is so good. As summer approaches for this school year I can thankfully claim the verse 2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”  

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