I just wanted to share a few quotes from my reading this morning from "Seasons of a Mothers Heart".  I cannot recommend this book enough...I just bought it yesterday on Amazon so I can have my own...vs. getting it from the library 1x a year.

I read the chapter titled "Prayers From Home"

"It's so easy to fall into the trap of trusting in methds rather than trusting God.  We wouldn't want to admit it, but we often think and act like Christian behavioralists who beleive that we are responsible for what our children become.  .....   We lose sight of the soverign God who sheperds our children, and we focus narroly on what we are or are not doing, woring unnecessarily and vainly, "it's all up to me!"

At the end of the day (or at the end of homeschooling!) the fate of my children will not be determined by whetehr I've use the right materials, read the best books, taken enough field trips or done more of whatever I didn't do enough of.  God is in coltrol not I.  How they turn out might depend more on how much I pray for them, more on how muhc I depended on God for them, than how much I "did" for them".  I want to be able to say to my child that I am "confidnet of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."

"When I turn my heart in praise to my Creator, he inhabits my home."

" When my lips are opend in praise to God for who he is and what he has done, I cannot help but think that heaven opens upon our family."

****For a bit more encouragement on this journey...and a reminder of what is REALLY important....read this letter Christina received!