Ready or Not?

Man where has summer gone? Ready or not it is time for school to begin once again. I am really sad that summer is over but I am really looking forward to the upcoming school year. I am in a very good part of my life right now were I am reevaluating my life. I am trying to get my priorities straight and the first thing is getting closer to God, then building a closer relationship with my husband and then my children. I have started some changes in my life already and things appear to be better. Not that things were bad but my mama has always told me my priorities were off. Now I see, she was talking in terms of money but it really got me thinking one day. Life is going to pass us by whether we are ready or not. Do we have our priorities in line with what God wants for us? Do we have life in the right order? Are we doing what we can to deliver Gods message? How many people have you lead to Christ today? This week? This month? This year? Well what are you doing to change that? God is coming whether we are Ready or Not. Are you prepared? Have you asked Jesus into your heart? Have you repented of your sins? Have you gotten on your hands and knees and told God all your troubles and asked for forgiveness?

For God so loved the world........ that is probably the most known Bible verse of all time. But something interesting to know is that so many people know it but don't believe it. So many just believe that we came from some big bang or from some kind of animal. Look around, things didn't just happen. Things are just so beautiful and so different to all come from two balls of fire colliding into each other.

Lets just get to the point here. God created us all. He gave us all a choice to make. He knows what choice we will make but none the less the choice is ours to make. So are you making the right one? Are you prepared for the end? Because it will be here, Ready or Not!!

Working

I am really tossed up right now. I want to stop working. I know it is best for my children and I am not liking the job as much anymore but I feel like I am letting everyone down if I quit. We need to fix up our home and have no savings, I have no replacement, we will have to cut back a lot, and I feel like I would go crazy with out the job.

My kids and family are number one in my life, well number two. God is number one. I feel like this is the right move and I do believe God is calling me to stop working. I think he wants me home full time. As a homeschooling family, my kids really need me. They struggle to keep up during this time. But it is so hard for me to stop working there. I have been with this company since I was 12 years old. Well sort of. I started filing, wasn't suppose to, I started answering the phone just to take a message, again wasn't suppose to, and I helped clean alot. I did alot of things there at that age that I wasn't suppose to but it has taught me so much. I started learning the answers to questions that were asked. As I grew older I started to learn the business. So when I was of legal age I began doing more and more. Now I am the territory manager. The job is flexible to me but it does still put a strain on me and the family.

I also have the concern about money. We are living very tight even with the income so how do we live without it? I know money isn't everything but I don't know how to save, how to live frugally, or how to do without. Since we have been adults we haven't had to do without.

Please pray over me as I make a decision.

Peace

I finally have some peace and quiet time. My parents were able to take my children to the mountains for the week. So now I can clean and have some me time. But as I sit here writing this I need to be 100% honest. I have not cleaned, I have not had peace, and I have not had me time. I have done absolutley nothing but miss my children. Cleaning isn't fun without them here. My house is too quiet and I dont know what to do with my free time. I have watched some silly videos of my children that I found on my computer. They found the web cam feature and began to record themselves. This was sometime this past winter. They were doing so during school hours mind you, but it was so funny to actually see them. So my question is this:  Why is it that when I have my children I am longing for that peace and quiet time? Why do I at times feel overwhelmed that I want my children and husband to leave me alone but the moment they do I want them back?

Luke 10:5
And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say Peace be to this house.

Have I no peace? Do I bring the rough waters with me? My children are great children for the most part so why do I get so wound up at times? Have I not brought peace into my home? How can I pray for peace on someone elses home if I don't pray for it in my own home? I told you in the beginning that I am not a fake person, I have struggles too. This is one of them. I want peace in my home.

Jeremiah 29:7
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace therof shall ye have peace.

I have to pray for peace. I need to seek God our Saviour not matter what happens in my everyday life. Through our journey things get hard and things get tough but he will give me peace if I seek Him.

Romans 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Have faith that God will grant you peace. Have faith in our Lord, he is King of all kings. He is our master and he will not leave us if we have him in our lives.

Isaiah 48:22
There is no peace, saith the Lord unto the wicked.

We can't go about our days living like an unsaved person. We have to confess our sins and ask forgiveness for them and do not repeat them over and over again. Do not become a wicked person.

So here is my prayer, this is for myself but feel free to pray it as well. Just talk to God he will listen if you are saved.

Dear Heavenly Father, my master, my creator:
Please forgive me for having not asked for peace. Forgive me of the sins I have not confessed, you know what they are Lord. I am asking you to give me Peace so that my home can have peace. Lord I can't do this without you. Please Lord hold my hand and guide me. Give me the knoweledge to teach my children to come to you when they feel down like I have today Lord. Give me guidance, understanding and the know how oh Lord. In your Holy name Lord I pray to you.
Amen

Homeschooling

I am going through our school books from last year and seeing how we didn't get as much done as I would have liked. We used the Abeka DVD program and have used it for the last 3 years. I started using it because I have a part time job. I work from January to April managing a tax office. So I wanted something that would be easier for us to use during that time. However my daughter didn't like sitting at a computer all day. She didn't like not being able to ask questions and getting an answer right away. She spent hours in front of the TV or computer screen. I didn't like that fact. It was very easy to get behind and very hard to play catch up. I love Abeka, we used it before the DVD program. I will be using just the curriculum this year. We will see how that goes. We are also going to join a co-op. I will let you know how that goes.

As a homeschool mom, I try my best not to coddle my children to much but it really hurts me when they get upset because they can't learn something in the time frame of when they want to learn it. So most of my time is spent going over something a lot before we have to test on it. That way they can make a good grade and they feel happy because they have actually learned the material. I never test and give them the answers. That is just not going to help them. I want them to learn so much. Life can be so busy.

Learning new things.

I am trying to figure out this whole blog thing. I want to be able to share many things that we do in our homeschooling day but I don't want a long list of post after post. How do you attract followers? How do you add links? How do I have separate click able entries? Are there any kind of sites I can learn from?

I want to be able to get this figured out so I can get my daughter into blogging. She loves to write and can come up with some very interesting things. However as we take our Journey that is one of the things that we need to work on. Her spelling and her grammar isn't that great either. She takes after me, really good at math and science but horrible at grammar. I wonder if it is because she can feel my haste when I am teaching it? I wonder if the reason she is so bad at it is because I have a hard time teaching it because I don't understand somethings? Wow I just had a revelation, if that is the right word. (LOL)