Please pray for me. The time is soon coming when Elijah will be of school age. Lee and I are wrestling over what that means. If you know me very well, you know that I have strong ideas about schooling and all that goes with it. Lee is pushing to send Elijah to kindergarten just so he can have the whole socialization experience, and so he can get an academic start, if you will. He says I can homeschool later, and reminds me that he has already given up on them going to high school. This is a big concession from Lee, because he is into the whole high school sports thing. Me, I don't want to go through them going to school, period.
But I know that God put me and Lee together for a reason. I am asking that you would pray that both Lee and I would have soft hearts toward each other. Please pray that Lee would understand where I am coming from. And please pray that I will keep my marriage as more sacred than any preconceived ideas about my children's lives, and not be stubborn, but be able to articulate my desires and ideas without becoming clouded with anger. And please pray that God's will would be done in the lives of my kids, whatever that will be.
As for what I am going to do, well, I am going to drop arguing with him about it, unless he brings it up. I am going to work with Elijah some this year to get an idea of what it would be like, whether homeschooling kindergarten really is something that I could do. And if I feel positive about it, then I will present that to Lee. The final decision will be his - I do believe that he is the head of my household, and that God will move his heart in the direction that is right.
5 comments:
Rachel, I'll be praying for Lee and for you too.
Rachel,
I will pray for you too. Mommy and I have been blessed that most of the time on the big decisions he gave us complete unity and then you just know your doing the right thing.
However there has been a time or two when Mom had to submit to something she really didn't want to do. The truth is she didn't submit to me , but submitted her desire for control to God.
The one specific occasion I am thinking of is when we moved to Texas , she did not want to go and had extremely convincing arguments from what she could see that it made no sense at all.
If your not familiar with this whole story, need to get Mom to share with you in how many ways God's hand was behind it all, not her stubborn husband. God had special plans/blessings for her that she would have missed out on if she had forced her will instead of accepting his.
Love ya,
Dad
Praying for you both, sweetie. You guys put your babes as first priority (that is after each other) so they will be fine whether you homeschool or not.
Mommi
Rachel, I will definitely be praying for you and Lee on this. Know that you have really been a blessing to me, as I read your blog and see the kind of woman, wife, mother, etc. you are becoming. Candidly, it is hope for a homeschooling mom's heart. :)
As your dad said, the Lord will give the two of you unity on this if you bring it to Him and leave it with Him, as you have apparently done.
Thanks everyone for the prayers and thank you Daddy for the good advice. It helps a lot :)
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