Well, we have now finished our second full week of school. Our new curriculum is going really well. The girls love it and even Josiah is able to join in on the Bible versus and the learning through motions activities. I am really enjoying it. I am finding that having two in school is a little bit more challenging. Add to that a very active toddler and a crawling baby and I have been a little stressed this week. Okay, more than a little at times. I have been an all out crazy, stressed, and tired momma. I love homeschooling! But some days I wonder why I do it!
Then I see Maggie lean over and help Samantha remember how to write a letter or a number, or I hear her reading to Josiah, and I remember. I love seeing my children interact. And with being home all day together they can’t help but interact.
So, on these days when it is hard, I throw myself at my Savior’s feet and pray for strength. He is faithful and trustworthy and always provides for me. He is teaching me patience and time management. He is growing me through this. I am striving to focus on the priorities. Those are not a spotless house or finished scrapbooks. That top priority should be training my children in righteousness. From that comes the greatest reward, one that will last an eternity.
And how can I achieve this goal, this goal of love between siblings, and a willingness to help? This goal of children that love God and serve Him with their entire being? Only through love. Not by snapping at them, or rushing them through school so that I can get to other things, or by brushing them aside when they need me. They will learn by my example. I must live love. I must show them how to serve with a willing heart. That is how they will learn to serve, to love, and to give. Only through my example.
Oh Father, help me to be a light of Your love to my children. Clean my heart!! Purge me of my selfishness and fill me with your love. Open my eyes to see my children’s hearts that I might train them to love You and to love others. Help me through each day. I NEED you Father. I desire to please You and to turn these little babes into double edged swords for you. That they will be ready to stand for You when that is required of them. Thank you for Your love and forgiveness. Amen.
The greatest lesson of all….. LOVE!
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