I have to believe that God has a sense of humor. He's proven it recently as I was diligently planning for our new school year. I had everything ordered and was getting all my so called ducks in a row when God decided this was the year He wanted me to make some changes to how we did school!
We've homeschooled since our daughter was school age. I won't go in to the details, but you can read more about our daughter's miraculous entry into the world in my past blogs. Suffice it to say that I didn't want to miss a moment of her life, so school outside the home was not an option.
Now we are in our 10th year of homeschooling. With little variance I have pretty much used pre-planned curriculums to homeschool. I haven't trusted much in my own abilities and up until now I'm embaraced to say that I haven't put my trust in God with our schooling either.
Gods nudging to teach more to my daughters interests and not from a standard of what "I" thought school should look like began last year. At the beginning of our 2008-2009 school year, probably about the same timing as this year (God is so funny...), I switched what I had planned to use for school, which were pre-planned curriculum(s) for a variety of subjects, to using the an teaching approach based on Gods Principles. But fear quickly extinguished that nudge I had felt and I reverted back to what I'd always used.
Gods gentle nudge came again about a week before we were supposed to start our 2009-2010 school year and our first year of high school. I had pulled a book from our bookshelf that had probably sat there unread for atleast 5 years about educating through a Lifestyle of Learning. When I originally bought the book I had browsed through it, but high school seemed like an eternity away, so I didn't pay much attention to its contents.
Gods prompt was stronger this time as I was reminded that with only one child I don't get to do this over neccesarily and with a handful of years left to be a main influence in my daughters life, I wanted more for her.
I want my daughter to want to learn and to have the ability to educate herself on whatever her heart desires. Up to this point I've spoon fed most of what she's learned. She hasn't seen the relivance in what she's learned, so much has been forgotten. I want more for her and I know God does also.
So we are on this path of renewing our minds as to what school looks like for us. I know it will look different than the way I was taught and many homeschools, but I know this is the path that God wants us on.
I have days of feeling overwhelmed and days of feeling at peace. On the days that I'm struggling and finding it hard to resist the temptation to fall back into what's comfortable for me (pre-planned curriculums) I find strength in His Word. As I find my stride I know He's right beside me and I know He has a perfect plan for my daughter. I just get the privledge of coming along on her journey. | 
