I am soooo excited to share with you all that we have some new Biblical Principle Approach bloggers so stop by and wish them well and encourage them in their homeschooling/blogging journey!!

Karen over at www.homeschoolblogger.com/coffee4meplease

Summer over at www.homeschoolblogger.com/onwisdomspath

Renae over at www.reflective.homeschooljournal.net

They each have precious wisdom to share on how God has been moving in their homeschool through using the Biblical Principle Approach to delve into God's word and uncover the delightful morsels of truth contained in His Biblical Principles!! Partaking of God's word in EVERY part of life, including education, is so rich and rewarding and satisfying to the soul of man...that is why God told us to 'TASTE' and see that the Lord is GOOD.

I'm telling y'all it's GOOD in God's Word...especially when u get out in the DEEP waters!!!!!!

...not always easy..He didn't promise that...but He did promise the reward of HIS WISDOM if we seek diligently for it. So give these gals a shout out!!!

We have started back to homeschooling and I've begun our 2nd half of the year with a new attitude, new vision, new (or maybe I should say RE-newed) purpose. I am sooooo grateful to our Gracious God for the blessing of REST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We took from the last week in Nov to the 2nd week in Jan. off for vacation/break....and ooohhhhh was it needed and appreciated!!! There is something to be said about taking REGULAR intervals of rest and actually in my own personal studies I've come across God's principle of REST. He knew we would need rest and so He even instituted and incorporated rest into His commandments..."Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy"

Ex. 20:8-11

8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it

In fact Moses instructed the Israelites to observe the sabbath even before God wrote it on the tablets of the 10 commandments and as we all know God established His cycle of rest in the beginning when He rested on the seventh day in Genesis. Not only did He rest and establish rest but the Word says He made it HOLY!! Our seventh day of rest is HOLY..God considers it HOLY!! How awesome is that! I still don't fully understand the import of it's holiness but if God says it is HOLY unto Him then I shall begin to look at it as HOLY and treat it as HOLY...just like the tithe is HOLY unto Him. That is one thing that I've been taught not to mess with because the tithe is not ours, it is the Lord's and it is HOLY unto Him. Therefore, I render it unto Him with respect and sobriety b/c it is HOLY....just like taking my rest when God says to take a rest.

God is just soooooo good...His very name means good(the scripture says God is good----a little bit of mathematics here, if a=b then b=a....if God is good then the definition of the word good is God and vice versa). Anyway, God has given us daily rest periods(the time where we sleep), the then weekly rests(after we've worked for 6 days we are commanded to rest on the seventh...and as far as homeschooling I would encourage every homeschooling mom to schedule regular intervals of rest(and even one prolonged period of rest) in their homeschool schedules b/c it is soooo beneficial. I've come to see the answer to burnout, any kind of burnout is rest...but isn't that what God told us to do in the beginning? I wonder why we've not seen it as important and as HOLY as God sees it? Of course it was not stressed in church about how important it is to rest...the 7th day was always spent in church and so was Wednesday night at bible study and so was Friday night prayer and then we go to work and take care of our families and try to spend time and have real relationships the remainder of the week and we are in "rest-deficits"....we don't have anything to give b/c we violate God's principle of rest and dont' take the time to rest and be renewed.
The following is for your consideration:
Isaiah 58:13-14

13 "If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath
and from doing as you please on my holy day,
if you call the Sabbath a delight
and the LORD's holy day honorable,
and if you honor it by not going your own way
and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,

14 then you will find your joy in the LORD,
and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land
and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob."
The mouth of the LORD has spoken.

This scripture says to me that God has promised a blessing in keeping what God has established as HOLY!

The book by Dr. Richard Heidler called The Messianic Church Arising has been such a blessing to me in pointing this principle out.

Something else that has been brewing in my heart is to study the Biblical feasts and not just study but to implement in our lives and homeschool. That is the reason I bought the book by Dr. Heidler. It has turned out to be a wonderful rsource for me (along with Chuck Pierce's book called Reordering Your Day. This one talks about establishing the prayer watches in your life.) So I'm in prayer about what principles to bring out about each feast as we observe them. I'll share what we do when we do it. My heart has also been pricked into acquiring more understanding of the Hebraic view of life, God, education, family, etc. Although man has put 'labels' on all these topics that I've mentioned I don't see it as becoming Jewish or Hebrew but this quest I'm on is about attaining to the knowledge of The One Who Loved me and Gave His Life for Me...about knowing the Eternal, Ageless One Who Created me and Gave me Life and continues to sustain and commune with me...the One who beckons to me in the night seasons when all is quiet and everyone is sleep...beckoning me to come sit in His Presence JUST because He loves me and wants to spend time with me...the One who speaks Words of comfort to my storm-tossed and weary soul...a soul that is weary from worrying about our homeschool not being up-to-par, storm-tossed with the emotions and physical fatigue of taking care of sick children and rushing my 7yog to the hospital with 103 fever b/c it would go no lower on a Sunday and then my 2 yo coming down with a fever of 102, a soul that allowed itself to be burdened down with the care of finances that are not there in abundance the way I've prayed for them to be for so long and yet we still wait, etc, on and on...yet and still I praise Him. It is in these night seasons, at 3am, 4 am sometimes 12 midnight as I respond to His call that He frees me from these cares and concerns and He sets me free to rejoice in Him

I willfully issue forth a praise and I determine to live a life of love and obedience that I pray is a pleasing fragrance unto the Lord even thru the pressure of trial, testing, and warfare.

He continues to show Himself faithful in my life and on my behalf and I shall continue to worship Him for His goodness and to kiss His nail-scarred Hands and Feet...those precious Hands and Feet, I lay tender kisses of my love, of my praise....of my very life.

I figured I'd post the name of our (home)school and our slogan...

It is:

My dd asked me last night what was the name of our school. I didn't even know she was thinking about a name...anyway, this name has been rolling around in me for about a year I just never officially used the name for anything in our homeschool. So since she asked me and after I told her and after she nodded her head vigorously in agreement I decided I'd post it. I've changed the category in the sidebar on my other blog from OUR HOMESCHOOL DAYS to WISDOM'S WAY PROVIDENTIAL ACADEMY....This category is where I'll file all posts giving a glimpse into our homeschool days, schedule, joys and progress in our studies as we endeavor to - walk in God's wisdom as He guides us by His Providence into His will for our lives.

How I arrived at this name

I was reading an article on Lisa Hodgen's website, www.me-and-my-hourse.org and she was sharing about how her children don't have 'grade-levels' they just move on thru the years thru their lives. This does away with the notion that I'm done with 8th grade and onto the 9th grade and 8th grade has been 'left-behind'....(I hope I've conveyed her intentions correctly...I can't find that article on her website anymore...Lisa H Help!!!!!) Anyway, that struck a cord in me and I began to realize that all the Christian homeschool 'methods' and approaches that I tried before PA were not a waste, they were stepping stones to help make me and mold me on the inside to even prepare me to begin to understand and desire what PA had to offer. The first strong influence upon came from Marilyn Howshall/Barb Shelton. What I took from this ministry was to really seek God and allow the Holy Spirit to guide me in how to homeschool my children. The next major, major impact came when I discovered Heart of Wisdom which emphasized teaching my children (to desire) to walk to God's wisdom and then of course, the (Biblical) Principle Approach. My thinking, thus my life, has been revolutionized by the teaching in biblical principles of learning and teaching that this approach calls for. When I look at from whence I've come I see that it has been God all the while working in me and upon me to bring me to where I am now...so His Providence guided me and GOVERNS my life...it always has. I take something from each stop I've made along the way in my homeschool journey. I also refer many times back to my resource called Teaching the Trivium by the Bluedorns. I was so excited when the book came in the mail, I just KNEW this is what God wanted me implement...but there was more. I believe He is allowing me to take something from every 'good' thing that He has brought across my path and is forming something beautiful in His sight to come from my life and carried on in my children...hence welcome to

WISDOM'S WAY PROVIDENTIAL ACADEMY

where we endeavor to

walk in God's wisdom, being guided by His Providence to fulfill HIS purpose for our lives