Navigating Our Days

This homeschool thing. We're really doing it! After months of researching and praying, studying different styles and curriculum, taking an awesome e-course and planning...we are finally doing it. This is all foreign territory but there is this calm and peacefulness about it that just feels right. Our lessons are short, yet meaningful. I am resting in the quality of our day rather than the quantity of our day. We have so much flexibility and are finding our natural rhythm. I'm not yet sure what to gauge our day and progress on but it's happening and it's working. 

 I want to have our mindsets that our school year is not only a frame of time but a journey, and lifestyle. We want to avoid burn out as much as possible. I love the idea of our learning being more of a way of life, rather than defined by "school- a school room, school hours, a school textbook". We can learn anywhere, anytime..the world is our classroom. But it's hard to break that mold of thinking when we have been trained up in going to school. 

I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised by my openness to flexibility. This is not my strong suit, even though I can go with the flow at times, I am still a structured and planned person. Type A to the T. This is an area I have prayed for the Lord to help me through, because I didn't want my stubbornness or maybe inexperience hinder how our schooling will be. I have my "ideas" but I can only navigate with my gut instincts and the Lord's guiding. So, when you pray, God answers. And would you believe it, I'm flexible! Haha, well not completely! It is still natural for me to stick to the agenda, but my edges are softening. I am starting to become aware of moments where a pause is needed. Moments where there is a real desire from a child to learn more in depth of something, maybe a discussion about character..about the whys in life...or just a need to step back and reset our minds and upset feelings. 

This thing is transforming me, in a good way. I had a feeling this would happen. 

So what area are you needing to be flexible in? Is there an area of your life you need to let go of and let the Lord take control? What is the Lord trying to speak or do in your life? Are you holding onto your ideas of what something should look like, feel like? I'm realizing you can't put God in a box. There's no one way to get from A to B.

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9

I find so much comfort in those words! That means I don't have to have all the answers. I don't have to carry that burden. God has it all figured out already! It means I can be open and vulnerable to change because He is fine tuning me for His plan and purpose. I can go kicking and screaming, resisting flexibility and being frustrated with the same results, or I can let Him transform my heart and rest in His goodness and TRUST Him. He is never-changing, always loving...constant!