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I have said it and I have heard it said by other home school Mothers – “I don’t know if my child is learning anything but I sure am!!”
Home schooling, has nothing to do with text books – math, reading, handwriting, science and other forms of so called “formal” learning but it has everything to do with sharpening dull rocks into finely sharpened arrows. The end product is strictly up to us as the parent. This is both scary and challenging as you are working with several different personality types and living in a society that no longer values righteousness.
I can truly say I feel sorry for, and yet at the same time envy, Mother’s who can pat their kids on the head, kiss their sweet cheeks and send them off to some institution for 8 hours or more a day to be trained by other people.
I envy them because their lives will never be “mussed” up. No mustard stains on brand new Moby wraps. No sub-floor adhesive can’s blown open on brand new tile floors that the grout is not sealed yet (someone is going to have fun fixing that one). No finger prints at a constant 3 foot level on all the walls and door jams. Cell phones locked with no idea what code was typed in so you can’t unlock it. No computer screens blurred by little finger always touching it. No extra stress of constantly having children under foot and dealing with the many different personality types – Iron is constantly sharpening iron. Godly Love is constantly being learned and perfected.
I feel sorry for them because what character training is being done in the Mother’s life. They can simple stay in their selfish stupor. There is no “fire” to go through. They will miss a Godly maturity that will never come by allowing someone else to train their children. They will never learn what true Godly Love is. The latest saying of our society is “I saw it, I wanted it, I through a fit, I got it.” We are creating a society that has no responsibilities.
Would God have us trade the souls of our children for the “worlds” perfection or make sure our children are properly “socialized” so that they will be able to meet the world’s standard – I THINK NOT!!
Perfectionism is a very bad thing and it rules our society today. We want perfection – NOW!! The clothes, the car, the house, the money to buy it all – Oh, the debt!! And we don’t want our children embarrassing us or A child for that matter. Americans have sacrificed souls for material possessions.
I found this quote on MamaArcher’s blog “The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing; but in our culture, we settle for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture.” Doug Phillips founder of Vision Forum.
Children are no longer thought of as valuable but disposable!
A Lady recently told me that she was a “loving” person because she lived during the 60’s “love fest”. Huh? This love bore many illegitimate children, created many incurable diseases (AIDS, STDS), led to the legalization of murdering unborn babies – or we tactfully call it abortion -, and turned children into a burden and money into a god. We now honor and glorify people who have “it all”.
I am learning that God’s love is much different – The Old King James translates it as Charity. Charity is a complete giving up of one’s selfish desires, a laying down of ones own interest to help someone else.
John 15:13 – Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Who are our friends, who should our friends be? Our society today treats aquitances as friends and our own children as acquaintances.
True Godly Love is no longer practiced in our society anymore.
Godly Love has been diluted to a happy, happy, huggy, wuggy, think of a purple dinosaur (Barney), humanism kind of love. Home schooling parents, parents with children with learning disabilities or who are struggling financially understand that “love” isn’t always grand. Sometimes Love is tough.
Home schooling comes with no rewards; no recognition, no honor or glory; there is not even a guarantee of a job well done at the end, you won’t win a popularity reward, but instead be branded as socially inept. Our houses will never be featured in Better Homes and Gardens. The sacrifice is great, the enduring hard at times, We can only believe that God’s grace will over shadow our short comings and hope that all of our hard work will someday produce a Godly heritage. As home school parents we have made it our job to not allow our children to be taught the heresies and the evil of our culture but learn and rejoice in truth. Patients is worked out everyday. Kindness is knowing when to push the child the extra mile. Gentleness is making your yes, yes and your no, no.
Our children are our crowns – someday we will lay them at the feet of Jesus - who we allow to write on the pages of our children’s lives will mold that child into who he will be in the future.
Our reward is babies chewing on our hair, sticky kisses on the cheeks, a constant messy “school” house, a constant over flowing of dirty laundry that when cleaned always seems to end up on the floor, never getting enough sleep, no time to ourselves, and constant finger prints on our clothes. “Life” is constantly happening all the time.
No, I don’t think I will be trading my children for all the perfectionism in the world; after all,
Titus 2 makes it clear that if we are not “loving our children, than we are in danger of blaspheming the Word of God” !!
To loose our children to the lusts of this world (money, popularity, fame, drugs, alcohol, premarital sex), the humanistic philosophies taught today and lies, well, would be to loose. I am more than willing to fight the fight for my children’s souls.
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