Seventeen years ago the Lord impressed upon me that we were not to put our children in public school.  My first thought was OK no public school, I'll just have to find a christian school that we can aford.  I went forward sure that since this is what the Lord wanted that he would provide the School.  Imagine my frustration when He closed the door on every Christian schoo we came across.  Finally I came to the point where I had to do something and with no other school available to us I went down to sign my child up at the local public school.

I knew I was doing wrong and so as I filled out the paper work I cried and pleaded with the Lord to understand.  Little did I know that He wasn't through yet or that he would use the first Gulf War to point me in the right direction.  During that time a number of wives on post had gotten together to help support one another while their husbands were gone.  It was there that I met a woman who was homeschooling her children.  As I listened while the other women questioned her the first though my mind was "Listen, this is important."  The next thought was "Is this even legal?"

I went home that day with all the thing she had said about homeschooling flittering through my head and yet thinking "Oh I could never do that."  But it wouldn't go away.  Finally, to get the Lord to leave me alone, I went down to the local Christian Book Store and asked if they had anything on homeschooling.  She reached under the counter and pulled out a magazine.  It was kind of an introduction to homeschooling issue.  I took it home and read every article in it.  I also ordered every free cataloge that was advertised in it as well. 

After reading through the magazine and all the catalogues and checking out what was required by the state for kindergarten  I finally said "OK Lord if this is what you want then I'll talk it over with my husband when he comes home.  But you're going to have to pursuade him."  I still wasn't sure I could do it but my thinking was that it was only Kindergarten and he already most of what was required.  If I couldn't do it then I could send him to school then next year.

On the other hand I wanted to wait to talk it over with my husband until he came home.  That didn't work out too well though.  One day my husband called and while he was talking to our son he asked if he was getting excited about going to school.  It was then that our son anounced that he wasn't going to school, he was going to do homeschool.  It took a while to get my husband to understand that I was only thinking about it and that it needed to be something that we both agreed to.

He wasn't real sure what to make of it but let it go until the day he came home.  To his credit he sat down and went through all the material that I had gathered.  When he saw that there were real textbooks and that I had a real plan he was much more agreeable.  He helped me decide on what we wanted for his education and the type of education style that we should use.

As I said that was Seventeen years ago.  Now here we sit seventeen years and four boys later and we have never turned back.  We thought we were doing what the Lord wanted.  What we never realized was the blessing that the Lord would bring in return.  They are too many to list in this  article, maybe I can do it over the next few day.