What a whirlwind weekend! Do you ever have a thought come crashing down upon you so suddenly and instantenously but once it settled you realized that you knew it all along? That happened to me this weekend.
Jimmy and I have received a powerful confirmation that it is time for us to take our children out of pubilc schools and educate them at home. Phew. There. I said it. I know this notion is absurd to many of you and frankly the idea of implementing it in reality is both overwhelming and exciting at the same time.
When the idea of homeschooling, of really actually doing it, began to feel like it fit right...kinda like a pair of jeans that I never thought I would wear but actually, when I tried them on, fit just perfectly and made me feel beautiful....
{Sigh. If that were only the case.} Ahem. But I digress.
When the idea of teaching my kids at home began to solidfy we decided to pray about it. Really.hard. Throughout the course of two days we received a crystal clear answer that we needed to do it. And once I was filled with that energy and comforted by the uninterrupted surge of rightness that consumed me I realized that I had actually known the answer all along. The course I am about to take is one that has been laid out for me from the beginning. Prepared. And now complete and ready. And I'm about to set foot upon it and venture on my Journey.
Don't think for a second that I'm not fully grasping the chaos and clutter and constancy of kids that will now be mine. I get it. Don't imagine that I am fooled into thinking that this is going to be easy and that we are not going to struggle and perhaps feel overwhelmed and irritated with eachother throughout the process. But I have something to carry with me along the way and that is knowing--KNOWING--that this is the right thing to do and being able to move forward without looking behind.
Let the journey begin.
2 comments:
Congratulations. Welcome to the ranks.
I actually have a foot in both worlds. My eldest is home, my 3 middlest are at public school, and my youngest will be doing a combo of home kindy and Lutheran preschool.
We know that as #2 gets to middle, he will come home as well. The rest is up in the air.
And the knowing?
Well, lets just say that it is like hammering your head all day long when you know it hurts if you don't listen to your self.
Glad that you have received your answer and you feel good about it. It is such a relief to receive answers to your prayers and know that you got your answer.
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