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I spy with my little eye a TV reporter in our home

I spy with my little eye a TV reporter in our homeschool room.

Yesterday morning, I woke up to a FB message from a local news reporter asking if I’d be interested in a on camera interview on the SAME DAY.

Y’all.

I had groceries to pick up, stacks of books, papers and planning materials littering the school room ( I still haven’t ordered all our materials for the school year😳) and the remnants of my 4 year olds multi-day art project was clearly visible all over the floor.

Did I mention that I have major bags under my eyes because my 9 month old still thinks that sleeping through the night is overrated?

So, my husband prayed with me and helped me think through some talking points then I tamed my humidity affected hair, applied extra under eye concealer and stashed all the mess from the school room into a laundry basket and hid it in our office.

And I resisted the urge to redecorate our homeschool room even though it’s going to be on the news.

I felt unprepared, unpolished and not even sure I was making sense in my sleep deprived state.

Yet, I stand in full confidence that the Lord will take my yes to this opportunity and use it as He sees fit.

The message is his, I’m just the messenger.

So tell me friends and let’s encourage one another, what’s something that you’ve said yes to recently even though you felt unqualified and unprepared?

Will your children be using the virtual option for

Will your children be using the virtual option for school next month?

Are you aspiring to make this an effective and sustainable way for your children to learn?

Your Homeschool Helper, @yourhomeschoolhelper will be hosting a weekly webinar to help parents prepare for virtual schooling.

Topics will include:

•How to create a schedule

•Setting up a learning environment

•Child Development

•Relationships and parental roles

And group Q & A session.

More details coming this week, but in the mean time tag and friend who could benefit from this training.

Note to self: when doing an exercise with heavy we

Note to self: when doing an exercise with heavy weights, it helps to have a focal point so you don’t lose your balance.

This was the caption on one of my FB posts 4 years ago.

As I read it recently, it immediately struck me how this same truth applies to being a mom.

Caring for others and stewarding so many responsibilities.

Yet sometimes I believe the lie that my emotions shout.

The lie that these blessings are burdens.

Can you relate?

Yet, God in his wisdom and love has provided a focal point for us through the life of Christ, the agency of the Holy Spirit and the infallible inerrant Scriptures.

These work in tandem to provide perpetual encouragement, and inextinguishable hope.

It’s impossible.... Does the task before seem t

It’s impossible....

Does the task before seem that way? Impossible and perhaps more than you believe you have the capacity to bear.

It can be so easy to forget that when we’re faced with uncertainties, the question isn’t so much about what we’re capable of but rather what is God going to do through us in spite of our deficiencies

I was talking to my husband last week about all the reasons why certain opportunities before me seem impossible to accomplish.

He lovingly reminded me of all the “impossibles” that line the pages of the Bible.

Sarah having a baby, Noah, building a really big boat, Moses leading over a million people out of captivity, David face to face with Goliath.

Daniel in the lions den, the three Hebrew boys delivered from the fiery furnace, the man crippled from birth walking, Lazarus raised from the dead and Peter walking on the water.

God’s not asking us to come up with a better plan, do more or be more.

But he is asking us to show with our actions what we confess with our mouth.

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