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I'm linking up with Home with the Boys and reading Seasons of a Mother's Heart by Sally Clarkson.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from this chapter:
- God never insists on our obedience. (Oswald Chambers) pg, 150
- I had judged myself guilty by someone else's standard. pg. 154
- … I worry that the freedom and grace that we have in the Lord is being subtly supplanted by man-made rules and regulations. pg. 154
- Legalism is the practice of creating external standards of belief or behavior to judge whether or not a person is righteous or mature. pg. 157
- Either we live by grace, or we live by law. pg. 158
- There is no law that can create God's spiritual fruit in our lives. It comes only from the Spirit of God in our hearts, as we let him live through us. pg. 158
- God wants us to live by faith in Christ, instructed by his Word, guided by his Holy Spirit, not in an immature dependence upon others to tell us how to live. He wants us to live by faith, in mature dependence on him for the wisdom he “gives generously to all without finding fault” (James 1:5). pg. 158
- Homeschooling should be a blessing to us, not an unbearable burden. If it has become such a burden, then perhaps we have required things of ourselves that the Lord never asked us to do. Perhaps the standards we are trying to follow are not God's standards but man's. pg. 160
It is so easy to judge ourselves by someone else's standars. What is this mom doing? What is that mom doing? How do I measure up?
I pray that no one does that to themselves with my blog. I write about our homeschooling adventures first as a journal for us. I want to remember the things that we're doing and the milestones as my children reach them. Second, I write hoping to inspire other moms. I like to share things that work and don't work for us in hopes that it will give ideas to other homeschoolers.
Don't get caught up in comparing yourself to other homeschoolers or other moms in general. Do what God has called you to do. Do what works best for you and your family. This is beauty of homeschooling: there are as many ways to homeschool as there are moms, dads, and children to be taught.
