Heavenly Father,
I can honestly look back at this first week of school and say it was the best one yet! Just like when you formed the Heavens and the Earth and put everything in its perfect order, I know and have known, that you also put the right kids with me. I love the fresh perspective they give me every day. I can’t wait to see what they will teach me tomorrow. I sat down to be their teacher today and walked away knowing and seeing a little more of the fruits your Spirit provides in me.
Each year that I get with my children offers me a chance to mold them, pray for them, and love them. I get the privilege of watching all of their firsts. I get to see them overcome hurdles and celebrate victories. It gives me one more year to make up for lost time, my mistakes, my ignorant deeds of the past and other regrets. This beginning week I get to pray all of that negativity away and strive to hit the mark once again. With you I can do anything I set my heart to do. I must just trust and obey and never cease to remember that you love these children even more than I do. So, when I’m at a loss and don’t know the answer, You do.
Thank you God, for 13 years now, I have been a wife and mother first. Thank you for giving me the courage to home school and for helping me those first years when I was so unsure. Those days still come now and then, but not as often. Because when they do I know where to go for guidance. You have never failed me. Thank you for a loving, hard-working husband that has supported me from day one and has also never let us down, but has sacrificed and shown his love with actions as well as words.
Homeschooling is hard work and sacrifice, I’ve heard it said. But I think it would have been a much bigger sacrifice to have gone a different road. Please, Father, continue to bless us and help us with our days of learning together. Help me to continue to grow in your ways and to show my kindness, patience, gentleness, self-control and all of Your other attributes more and more. Help the kids to learn all of the important facts and information that is so crucial for their success. I pray that they look back at their time of growing up and being educated at home and consider it a blessing in their lives. But, above all Father, help them to learn about You and follow You all the days of their lives. Forgive me for my wrongs and help me to make them right by your power. In Jesus’ precious name I pray, Amen.
I can honestly look back at this first week of school and say it was the best one yet! Just like when you formed the Heavens and the Earth and put everything in its perfect order, I know and have known, that you also put the right kids with me. I love the fresh perspective they give me every day. I can’t wait to see what they will teach me tomorrow. I sat down to be their teacher today and walked away knowing and seeing a little more of the fruits your Spirit provides in me.
Each year that I get with my children offers me a chance to mold them, pray for them, and love them. I get the privilege of watching all of their firsts. I get to see them overcome hurdles and celebrate victories. It gives me one more year to make up for lost time, my mistakes, my ignorant deeds of the past and other regrets. This beginning week I get to pray all of that negativity away and strive to hit the mark once again. With you I can do anything I set my heart to do. I must just trust and obey and never cease to remember that you love these children even more than I do. So, when I’m at a loss and don’t know the answer, You do.
Thank you God, for 13 years now, I have been a wife and mother first. Thank you for giving me the courage to home school and for helping me those first years when I was so unsure. Those days still come now and then, but not as often. Because when they do I know where to go for guidance. You have never failed me. Thank you for a loving, hard-working husband that has supported me from day one and has also never let us down, but has sacrificed and shown his love with actions as well as words.
Homeschooling is hard work and sacrifice, I’ve heard it said. But I think it would have been a much bigger sacrifice to have gone a different road. Please, Father, continue to bless us and help us with our days of learning together. Help me to continue to grow in your ways and to show my kindness, patience, gentleness, self-control and all of Your other attributes more and more. Help the kids to learn all of the important facts and information that is so crucial for their success. I pray that they look back at their time of growing up and being educated at home and consider it a blessing in their lives. But, above all Father, help them to learn about You and follow You all the days of their lives. Forgive me for my wrongs and help me to make them right by your power. In Jesus’ precious name I pray, Amen.
1 comment:
I love what you said about it being more of a sacrifice to send them off. I had never thought of it that way. great food for thought.
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