Homeschooling Is Life! - Summertime, and the livin' is easy..................

• May. 16, 2006 - Summertime, and the livin' is easy..................

Ok, so it's not quite Summertime yet, and things haven't been so easy so far today.

I don't like posting anything when I am feeling frustrated like I am today, but I guess I need a good dose of preaching to myself. Now, if I could just get myself to listen! :)

It doesn't matter what method or style of homeschooling you use, or if you have degrees or not, OR whether you are rich or poor. What matters is the condition of your heart. Today, I feel like my heart is broken. My kids have been fighting and short with each other, and I haven't had a lot of patience for any of it.

I know my heart hasn't been in the right place. I have been finding fault and placing blame. There are also a lot of temporary little foxes that have been raiding the vineyard. It's hard for me to see past it, and get my mind back in sync with what is truth. It's amazing to me how just a few things can pile up and make a mountain! I know I have to get rid of that mountain, and I know how~ I just forget sometimes, and then there is a bit of rebelliousness that would just rather gripe about the mountain instead of conquering it. (Some day's it seems easier to gripe than it does to just believe what God says!)

I know this might seem a little simplistic, but I thought maybe the Lord could give me some insight, so I sat and read His Word and asked him to help me change my heart today. You know, He is in the business of changing hearts and lives. (And moving mountains, and vanquishing little foxes....)

Here are a couple of acrostics that I thought of, while pondering my heart disease today:

His

Eternal
Attitude is

Right

Teaching

Help

Eventually

Arrives and is

Richly

Treasured

He who dwells

Even, I

Am protected

Reassured by

Trusting in your Word

Heaven's

Eternal

Answers

Reward

Truth seekers

Hearing

Ears

Are

Resting in

The Lord's Peace

How can

Everyone know

All of your

Riches Lord?

The Bible tells them..

Change my heart oh God and renew a right spirit within me!

Have a blessed day!

Nancy

Comments

• May. 16, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by ReneeM

ok - so its not just me!! We are taking the week (and last week - is that ok?? lol) to be nice to each other, clean together, and me trying not to be selfish with my time. I love life without routine and things to do... Maybe you need an unroutine day :) (kind of like unschooling) to take the pressure off!!

hope your day improves

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• May. 16, 2006 - Some encouragement (I hope)

Posted by

I have felt similar to you lately, it seems! Today in my quiet time, I was reading the Sermon on the Mount (in funky new language from the Message version) so it really jumped out at me because it was not what I was used to reading, so hard to gloss over.

Just a snippet to hopefully encourage you:
"You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.
"You're blessed when you're content with just who you are-- no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought...."
..."Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met."

Hope it encourages you as it did me! I am stopping now to just say a prayer for you to be bathed in blessing and peace :)

Jen

Edited by MrsIncredible on May. 16, 2006 at 6:54 PM

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• May. 17, 2006 - (((((Nancy)))))

Posted by PatriciaWHunter

I've been doing a Beth Moore Bible study on the fruit of the Spirit and yesterday I was having a day quite similar to yours - only I just have one child at home now so there wasn't any sibling bickering going on - just a bad attitude on my part - and decided that while I was on the treadmill I would go ahead and watch the video teaching from Beth early. I am so glad I did. She reminded us that when we are going through these rough places and entertaining negative thoughts we need to stop and ask ourselves (remembering that our enemy is mostly mouth): "What is he telling you that doesn't line up with what God is telling you?" And, of course, it is in reading and meditating on God's Word that we are reminded of Who God is and who we are in Christ Jesus. I love your acrostics! Love ~ Patricia

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• May. 26, 2006 - Beautiful Writing!

Posted by motaag

The acronyms for Heart brought tears to my eyes it was so lovely.
Thanks for posting a comment Nancy. That's super that you are homeschooling all four of your growing kids. I am fortunate to be blessed to homeschool my youngest son, but my other three children are in public school. I don't have the option to homeschool them because they are from my first marriage and my husband's (we're blended like the Bradys)... I do work with them when I can and will try my best to catch them up this summer. It's so sad to see all this precious sponge brain time wasted on our terrible public school...
Take care!! Tania

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