Homeschool Blues | When Bad Days Just Seem To Catch Up With You
Life isn't perfect. Let me rephrase…my life isn't perfect. I confess I like to look like I'm put together. The truth is that I have bad days too. Like today, when I wouldn't allow my daughter to “challenge my authority” and play the piano the way she wanted. Our argument lead to a “fully justified” (in my mind) correction which I spent the rest of the day regretting. I buried myself in reviewing a heaping stack of curriculum loaned to me by friend on the weekend and emotionally shut down. It was a disaster!
Do you have bad days? What do those days look like for you? Do you end up yelling at your kids? Do you think that some other mom that you know has it all put together? After all, her kids are wearing the cutest clothes, they eat organic everything (grown directly from their home garden, of course) and they always obey, right?!
Let's be honest with each other. We need a reality check. We don't need to perform in order to be loved. We don't need to be perfect to instill character. We don't need to have it altogether to keep on going. What we need to do is shed a little grace on ourselves. We need to focus on the One who is capable of giving us the grace that we need. We need to realign our thoughts to our Maker. We must remember who we are in Him, how much we are loved by Him and really hear what He has to say to and about us. Then and only then we can press forward and do what it is we need to do with love for those around us, integrity in our actions, and acceptance of ourselves.
May God bless you and your family today.
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Verses to Encourage
John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name,
he gave the right to become children of God,
John 3:16
Whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,
we too might walk in newness of life.
Ephesians 1:4
He chose us in him…
Psalm 139:14
[We are] wonderfully made.
Psalm 118:8
He is our refuge, our shelter. He comforts and leads us, restoring our souls.
Romans 15:7
…Christ has accepted you…
John 6:37
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and
whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Ephesians 1:6 (paraphrase)
He freely bestows on us, His grace.
2 Timothy 1:14
[A]…good deposit [has been] entrusted to you]…
Jeremiah 31:3-4a
The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying:
“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
I will build you up again….”
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