My High School Graduate

I write the following post for myself of our homeschooling journey.  However, I hope it’s of benefit to others as they will reach this stage all too soon.  We’re beginning a new journey and although our story is not a perfect one (as you’ll read below), real life rarely is.  We’re human; we make mistakes.  Inevitably.  But we serve a God who has all in order and who makes all things perfect in His time.  We rest in that.

Our Story –

My first son, Seth, has finished high school.  It happened rather unexpectedly.  You might think that very strange and I hesitate to even write it because it does sound rather odd.  How could it happen without it being somewhat planned? 

It all started with a 1 day class I went to back in January where Mary Schofield was the speaker.  She spoke on jr./sr. high school and how to set up a course of study, write transcripts, etc.  After her class, I was motivated to come home and write down everything my son had done for his studies up to that point.  We have been keeping track of grades and courses but I needed to write out exactly what my requirements were for him to graduate.

When I did this I could see that he had did ALOT.  My heart became heavy and yes, tears did flow because I thought of all the work I had put upon him.  I know we homeschooling parents tend to do more then we should just because we feel so uncertain that we’re making right decisions.  And of course, we wouldn’t want to let the homeschooling community down.

When looking over my requirements and what he had already completed, I could see he had enough credits to graduate right then.  But I wasn’t ready.  It was just too abrupt.  I had so much more I wanted to do with him.  My baby (he’s my oldest but he’s still my baby)  would be moving on.  This time of life would be completely passed.

So we continued on and he was fine with this for he was enjoying what he was doing (Ambleside Online).

Then came the church project.  Our assembly is building a church.  We’re just a small congregation and so my husband, who is not a contractor, but knows as much as one, is in charge of the project.  My boys have been called upon to help quite a bit, especially Seth.  This has been very frustrating to me because I like to see little check-marks next to each subject as it’s completed.  And I knew it wasn’t happening.

Here it is folks.  The whole enchilada as to how he graduated sooner then I expected.  In a weak moment (I have a lot of those.) I said to him, "Son, if you want to say you’ve graduated that’s fine.  You have enough credits, so it’s not like you haven’t done your work."

The problem was he ran with it.  In a few days I wanted to take it back but whereas I was feeling regret, it inspired him to action.  He had given his future career decisions some thought but this moment really propelled him to take a harder look at things.

I know we ask God to direct our paths and that he can even use our "weak moments" to perform His will.  I can only trust  that this was the case here.  It’s hard sometimes as a mother though, to just let go. 

To be continued..

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