Sometimes I think God should just whack me on the side of the head until I get it...  (but I'm glad He doesn't).  I just finished hosting a home school tea at my church.  This was something I definitely felt He was calling me to do.  But in April we all got sick.  When the date was postponed until May-- I thought, "Terrific, I'll have plenty of time to promote this!"  But you know how life sometimes gets in the way...  I missed a couple of deadlines for publishing the event.  Then our town didn't hang the banner I had made.  I even had a hard time getting people to put up flyers in their store windows-- but we finally got about a dozen up.  Needless to say, I was discouraged.  I'm married to a promoter, but I couldn't promote my way out of a box!  I felt that I was letting down our Pastor's wife who was co-hosting this with me; and I felt that I was letting down God. 

But, you know, I'm thanking Him, that He finally helped me to give this project back to Him.  It would be whatever it was He wanted it to be.  Six of us sat down to tea together-- not the grand event I had first envisioned, but oh so grand in its own way.  This neat little group with two major things in common-- a love of God and a love of the children He blessed us with-- were able to sit down together and really talk about all the different ways we could educate our children.  Maybe I didn't "win masses over" to the calling of home schooling; but that's not what was in His plan.  Maybe just a few more families will be blessed as abundantly as our family has been, and maybe they will go on to touch others lives and so on and so on. 

I have learned a lot at this tea party.  I can't wait until next year's.