This is what the Lord says:

"Stand at the crossroads and look:

ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it. 

and you will find rest for your souls."

~Jeremiah 6:16

"Come to me , all who are weary and burdened, and need rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart. And you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

Matthew 11:28-30

"But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed

Luke 5:16

(These are the journalings that I wrote after the week-end online conference with Cindy Rushton a Charlotte Mason Primer. )

     This week-end was a BIG breath of fresh air.  I feel like wind in my sails again.

     It has been too long that I have been wandering and distracted.  I have gotten off track with my calling, my way of teaching the boys. 

Lord, it was you who showed me the Charlotte Mason Method so long ago.  I need to get back to ....

-Copywork ( and dictation)

-Living Books

-Forming Good Habits

-Narration

-and Nature Notebooks

to name a few.

    I want to condence our workload and make it natural, deep, and meaningful.

   I have been distracted like Martha

-Martha wanted to serve and her ways were well meant.  She gave lots of time and service to our Lord. But , she was distracted with all the preperations and running around.

-Martha ended up just running around Him instead of what was most important....sitting at His feet.

Now for Mary....

-She slowed down enough to be with Jesus.

-She focused ON Jesus and what he had to give her.

-She just sat at His feet and soaked up Jesus' presence and what he had to teach her. 

-Her FAITH

The definition of Worship= to move toward in holy affection.

"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, " you are worried and upset about many things. ( sound familiar ????) but only one thing is needed.  Mary has chosen what is better, and what will not be taken from her."

~Luke 10:38-42

Oh Lord, 

I pray you bring me to your feet again.  I was there once and I am trying to take the time each day to be there again.  Your ways are not my ways and I pray that there will be more of you and less of me.

In His Name Jesus...thank you...Amen

Please keep us in your prayers.  Noah came down with the flu on Sunday and Nicolas on Monday.  I feel like I am fighting it and haven't come down with it so far.  I pray with rest, water, tinctures, and   prayer I will be be able to ward it off.  So I am playing nurse right now. 

On a different note:

I have been wanting to get back to posting Tightwad Tuesdays and haven't yet.  But I have been feeling the need more lately.  I have always wanted to find ways to encourage moms to be able to stay home and be able to home educate their kids the whole way through.  I find that it is even MORE nessesary to homeschool through the highschool years.  What I hear that is going on in jr. and highschools make me shake in my boots.  We have to be turning a blind eye if we don't see it. There are ways to have our children test their wings with out shoving them in the lions den. 

Now, I know some sweet sisters that have no other choice.  They have done all they can and they are trying to just meet the basics.  That is something different.  But I pray that I may help with ideas to lessen the need to go out as much or at all. 

Now you are probably wondering why in my title I have ...backdoor provisions.   About 5 years ago a friend was talking about a mutual friend's phrase. "Backdoor" provisions are where you lay what you need at the Lords feet and you have NO idea how where it would come from.  You seek the Lord's peace and have faith and knowing he will provide what you need. 

I have at times cried and prayed to have faith like a child and said I have NO idea how the Lord was going to provide without us going into debt more.  One time it was when we needed a car repair.  Well someone had given money to a young couple to fix their car but 

ended not needing it and they  said the Lord wanted to bless us.  This all happened when my hubby and his aunt were trying to figure out what to do with the car and I was at home praying.  The neat thing was the money that these friends helped us with was 1 dollar more than we needed. 

I have to say we live on a humble income and I have learned a lot over the last 17 years.  I pray that I can encourage others if they really feel called to stay home and homeschool their children that there is a way.  Or a way to show ways to redistribute where their money is going to where they really want it. 

I pray Tightwad Tuesdays will bless someone.

God Bless<><