I read this today and thought this is what I really need to meditate on as I FINALLY get started with our homeschool year on Tuesday. Yes, I know that I said I was starting awhile ago. Here is what this dear woman wrote as a tribute to the new homeschool year:
(I sooooo need this)
Am I ready? I have spent the summer thinking; plans are laid
Now I carefully prepare to execute these plans I've made
Every subject I have researched, every book that I have read
Will not make my homeschool for me; prayer will light the path ahead.
Hard to wrap my brain around the syllabus for every class
Organizing, planning schedules, challenging but still a blast
Mindful always of the need for balance in our homeschool life
Expectations of perfection only lead to tears and strife
Setting goals and planning rest for body, mind, for spirit, soul
Can't allow our academics to disrupt our being whole
How could I consider profit if I graduate a child
Only full of smarts and knowledge, brainy, bright but all the while
Overwhelmed with heart confusion, striving flesh not knowing grace
Lord, forbid that I should fail to teach my kids to seek Your face!
You and I, Lord, you and I will stay in constant conversation
Eating from Your word and finding there my daily explanation
All I need to make decisions for the way we spend our time
Resting in Your loving arms and trusting in Your perfect mind.
Spurred on by the Spirit and others to write...my heart, my struggles, my life, my chaos, and to find that EVERYTHING is SACRED...finding the sacred in the chaos of real life, for the glory of God.
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