"Get over it!"...I have heard this phrase more times than I can count. "I know there is alot of repetion of math facts, but you need to do them all.."get over it"..."No, we can not go on the field trip. We are behind in our work.."get over it" and get your work done!"..."I know all your friends are doing unit studies and you think that would be alot less work.  We are sticking with ABEKA.."get over it!"  I don't like this phrase and I try not to use it. Every time I hear it my heart sinks a little. I feel like there is no compassion, no mercy, no understanding, no patience in these three little words.  We as moms and as teachers should always be using our words to teach, train, lead, and mold our children.  These words might stop short a debate that is going on but I don't think they do much else. Yet, they are tossed around easily, maybe without really hearing what is being said.

This weekend, when I heard these three little words uttered, something happened to me. A thought came to me that there was one topic  I was not, oh, never, going to get over. A spirit of rebellion you might be thinking?! No! I am referring to my feelings about the King of Kings..the Almighty...the Trinity...God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The feelings I have for Him I never want to "get over". These are some of the words that come to mind...awestruck, capitivated, incredible, inconceivable, indescribable, marvelous, overwhelming, remarkable, stupefy, stupendous, unimaginable, unutterable.

When I wake in the morning I am struck with an His indescribable peace. As I read His words in my bible I am captivated by His teachings. In my pray time as he pours out his Holy Spirit over me I find that my words are unutterable. It is inconceivable that He loves me so much that he gave his life for me. When I look back over my life at the blessings he has bestowed upon me...from His healing of me when I was a baby, through my wonderful years growing up, to marrying and having children, through the years of homeschooling...it is all incredible!

The way he answers my prayers and always leads me down His pathways is remarkable. I am awestruck every day just looking at His creation outside around me..all that He has made to give us pleasure..the birds, the flowers, the wild bunnies. He has stupified me with how well he knows me, so intimately...and how he cares for me so lovingly and gently. The people, my friends, he has brought into my life is something I marvel at. When I think of the family he gave me...my King knowing me before my mother even knew there might be a me...and sticking in there with us all until we surrendered our lives to him I am overwhelmed. For me to know He stays with me, my family, my friends and all His children every moment of every day, forever is unimaginable. And the thought that He has given all of us, every single person, a path to eternal life, to a place we will spend eternity in his presence is stupendous!

We moms, as the teacher, give out grades for lessons learned.  If we had to give ourselves a grade on how well we were teaching the above feelings what grade would we be giving to ourselves.  Think about this...how can we pass on to our children what we do not feel ourselves!  Do a little schoolwork yourself.  Pick out the adjectives in the paragraphs above and then write out how each one pertains to God and your relationship with Him.  I think you feel the same way I do, I just think most of us have to stop a moment and reflect on those feelings.  We get caught up in the day to day routine and and we forget to feel God...we have put the breath catching feelings aside, except during our few minutes of quiet time with him, to attend to every day life. We have somewhat "gotten over it" without even intending to.

After you do this little exercise do it with your children...no matter what age they are.  Challenge your children to put the adjectives together with the way they feel about God.  And if they have trouble putting together the two then that is great too!  We know what we need to be focusing on this summer.  We should teach them, that in life, there are situations that we have to let go.."get over".  There are things we have no control over or just have to be, so we need to accept them that way..we have to "get over" what we think or want.