Only a Few Short Years

The journey began 17 years ago when my firstborn turned six.

Our homeschool journey.

As we plan, work, cry, learn and journey together, sometimes it seems as if it will go on forever but it really doesn’t.  It’s just a few short years we have with these children who are God’s own special delight – a blessing He in His infinite wisdom sends us.

I’m a flawed woman. So many flaws.  But He says, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” And that’s what I hold onto.  His Word and what He say’s about me.  Not what I see but what He says and believes about me.

I have made it through all these years of homeschooling because He says that, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

It wasn’t always easy. I’ve cried, been discouraged and yes, even angry when things were not going like I thought they should. But whose life ever stays in its well-ordered rut and never gets jostled about occasionally?

So here I am again getting ready to graduate my third son from high school and the reflection, as I start to gather pictures for a slide show, begins. The years have went by so quickly.

I look into his special memories box and I see an old, torn and tattered phonics book. A book filled in with the awkward handwriting of a 7 year old. A boy just learning to read and now a boy that can never stop reading.

Have I done him justice, dear God? Have I taught him the ways of the Lord like Hannah did Samuel?  Have I shown him the same grace that God in his great mercy extended to me?

I feel like maybe I haven’t done enough.  But then, I have never been enough.  He alone is enough. My trust is in Him.

“For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.” Psalm 71:5

If you’re in the middle of your own homeschooling journey or just beginning, enjoy the moments for they are here today and gone tomorrow. Treasure the everyday.