Hi all!
Please pray for our daughter Lauren. We are taking her off to college in Cedarville, OH this week! We are so excited and blessed! It has gone by SO quickly and I sit and praise the Lord, for while we surely have made so many mistakes along the way in our parenting, the Lord has been so gracious and we are blessed with a daughter who loves the Lord and wants to do His will. The Lord really DOES do more than we can ask or imagine!
I share this to encourage those who are just beginning the homeschooling journey or who haven't yet traveled as far was we have....it has been SO worth it! Treasure the time you have with them. You will be where I am before you know it! (And I'll be here again...and again...and again... with our five other children!! ha!)
The lyrics of a Casting Crowns song called "Who Am I" speaks my heart and my prayer for our daughter. I'll copy and paste below...
"Who Am I" by Casting Crowns
Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart
Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You're
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours
Who Am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love and watch me rise again
Who Am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me
I am Yours
Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear
'Cause I am Yours
I am Yours
Ephesians 3:20-21 (New International Version)
20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
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