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When The Holy Spirit Takes Over Your Homeschool

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
For the most part the last three to-do’s of my plan went as planned.  It’s the 1st 1/2 of the day that God messed with. Don’t get me wrong, I liked it.   Jadin brought our big basket of bibles out and set them on the table.  {Believe me folks, after the rapture there will be plenty of bibles to be found at our house.}  We read our bibles individually and during read aloud time, and I’m all about creative ways to get more Jesus into your day.  Meal time devotions are new to us and they’ve been time consuming.  It’s a worth while time pursuit and I always feel strengthened as a family when we spend this time together.
Sadly, some days we’ve skipped meal time devotions because I’ve felt rushed, like we just don’t have the time.  When I grow up though I’m going to be Ann Voskamp, or she can become my godmother or something, and we’ll faithfully do devotions at every.single.meal. {Read this post of Ann’s, One Habit that Radically Changes a Family, and tell me if it doesn’t make you just want to literally chew every page of the Bible – chomp, chomp, chomp} My goal for now has been to get in family bible reading after one meal per day.  I’m praying that one day we can devour the Word after each meal.
We’ll get there.
And this is where Holy Spirit showed up, right in-between the sticky oatmeal dishes and my dry erase board plans for the day.  With baby Liam quietly napping, and the two younger children content to play beside me, the boys and I started where we left off in the book of John.  Then Jadin started asking all about Jesus being prophesied in the old testament.  Next we were in the book of Isaiah.  Zion mentioned Job, and with pages turning, we were hunting in Job.  In our discussion Enoch came up, and we quickly searched to see what verse it was exactly in Genesis that said:
Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.” Genesis 5:24
It had been about an hour at this point.  I stopped to read a few bible stories to Gabriel and Naomi from their children’s bible. Naomi asked several endearing questions like “does Jesus love bad guys too,” which the Holy Spirit gently weaved us through talking about loving our enemies. We read about Elijah and Elisha, which led to a discussion on false gods and next we sizzled awhile as we contemplated chariots of fire.  As you can see we were everywhere in the Word and friends, it was good.  Jadin dearly expressed a desire to read through the book of Job in his personal reading time.  I encouraged him that the “plan” that I had him on was just a spring-board, and that anytime he felt led to another part of the Word he was free to move onto that book.  Then Zion brought up Esther and we somehow got on the topic of standing up for the truth.
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.

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