When The Holy Spirit Takes Over Your Homeschool.
And just so you don’t start thinking I’m sister-super-Christian, let me start this post by saying when I woke up this morning I almost said “ugh,” but I didn’t. The very next words that popped up in my spirit were “This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.” I went with that, because focusing on a power verse is how I navigate through my days. To be honest though it was almost 8:30 a.m., far beyond my joyous early morning routine, and my #GoodMorningGirls was already out the window. I could tell by the quiet in the house that 4 out of 5 children were still sleeping. Zion, our 8-year-old, was up playing Wii {yes, we have a Wii that the older children can play for 30 minutes if they get up early, do their morning routine and complete their Bible reading.}
You see tackle football has shown up and thrown us off our groove a bit. We haven’t been getting home until after 8 p.m., which is our family’s usual bedtime. We didn’t eat dinner together until 9 p.m. the night before. I’m not complaining. Football is one of the activities our family has chosen to participate in {hub’s is a football guy} and it only lasts about 9 weeks. We don’t do back-to-back year round sports, or run from thing-to-thing as a rule, yet here we are.
Now you want to know how the Holy Spirit swept us off our feet? O.k., we’re almost there. You see I had my plan on how we’d redeem the day. Lately, I’ve just been writing our day out on the dry erase board because each day has been so different.
Here was my plan, with the hours we had left in our day:
- Quick breakfast followed by 30 minutes of Bible time
- Older children work on their work-boxes {For today: Reading, Math, Writing}
- Younger children light table-work
- Mom, work on repainting mudroom
- Light afternoon pick up
- Ken Ham/AIG DVD’s during afternoon rest time
- Football rush…dinner…gear on…ready…huff-puff…out the door
“Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.” Genesis 5:24
As we breezed through various books in the Bible, as questions came and answers were discussed, I was full of the joy of the Lord. I said Lord, I want more of this. Long story short we read, searched, dug deep and fellowshipped as a family in God’s Word for 3 hours. It was 2 p.m. when we stopped.
Not a math book was cracked or a pencil lifted this day. But the Holy Spirit gave us a full day of homeschooling, and I’m hungry for more. His ways are always better than my ways. I don’t want to get so weighed down with the business of academics that we miss out on the fullness of God’s Word. I want more days of priceless study together. I desire to truly use this gift of time that homeschooling allows to stretch toward God together as a family.