As home educating mothers, we all strive to do our best and provide our children with the most excellent education we can. As a mom using the Biblical Principle Approach to education (and planning my own lessons), I must spend a good deal of time preparing lessons, researching and such. It is easy to look up and find myself far off the reservation, out in the desert, wondering how on earth I got there. It’s dry and itchy and lonely.  I need to get back to the still waters (Psalm 23).

No matter what curriculum, what philosophy we use, it is so easy to get caught up in the planning, studying researching, even teaching. We get caught up in routines, charts, plans and other things. But God has so much more for us–and for our children.

Our focus should be on “the good portion” (Lk 10:42). In the story of Mary and Martha, Martha was caught up in the mechanics of her day. Things needed to get done and someone had to do it. Her issue was not knowing when to take off her homekeeper hat and sit down to listen to Jesus. Mary seemed to have a sense of the importance of the moment and sat down to soak it in.

I want to be like that with my home education. I want to seek first His kingdom (Mt. 6:33) and have all the “little” things added to me. I don’t want to miss a single minute of God speaking to us, while I’m distracted with planning and scheduling and the other stuff.  Lord, give me a Mary spirit…

I encourage you to sit at the feet of Jesus with your children. He will richly reward you. You will grow and mature in Him and all the other things will work out just fine.