A Homeschool Filled with Light

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As I sat wondering what to write about for today, I glanced out the window and noticed the bright sunshine. I had just gotten off the phone with our son. We had been talking about the need for the pictures to be bright and light in our new projects. I love light. I like Solomon’s sentiment when he wrote:

The light is pleasant,
and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 11:7

I feel that way, too.

The hymn “Sunshine in My Soul” by Eliza Edmunds Hewitt came to mind. Miss Hewitt began a career as a teacher, but she developed a problem with her spine and had to give it up. Her recovery took many years. Eliza Hewitt wrote dozens of hymns, including one entitled, “God will take care of me, Here will I rest.” It is encouraging to know that a woman who had suffered as she had could encourage so many of us to sing of the sunshine in our souls.

There is sunshine in my soul today,
More glorious and bright!
Than glows in any earthly sky,
For Jesus is my light.

Chorus:
O there’s sunshine
Blessed sunshine
When the peaceful, happy moments roll;
When Jesus shows His smiling face,
There is sunshine in my soul.

There is music in my soul today,
A carol to my King;
And Jesus listening, can hear
The songs I cannot sing.

Chorus

There is music in my soul today,
For when my Lord is near
The dove of peace sings in my heart,
The flowers of grace appear.

Chorus

There is gladness in my soul today,
And hope and praise and love
For blessings which He gives me now,
For joys “laid up” above.

Chorus

Light was the first thing that God called good. (Genesis 1:4). In Psalm 18:28 the psalmist says: “The Lord my God illumines my darkness.” John 1 tells of Jesus being the light that shone in the darkness and of the darkness not comprehending the light.

One of your purposes every day is to bring light into your children’s hearts and minds. Several weeks ago I left a black zippered IKEA storage box on the floor of a spare bedroom. I was going to get back to it. You know how that goes. I wasn’t thinking of that box when I walked into the darkened room that evening. You can guess what happened next. I went sprawling. Now, one of my cardinal rules is not to leave black storage boxes on the floor! And now, before I enter that room with its pull chain light bulb in the center of ceiling in this dear old cranky house, I turn on the lamp in the hallway outside it.

We humans need light. We don’t do so well in the dark. In the beautiful psalm which extols God’s word, we read about one of God’s gracious gifts:

Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.
Psalm 119:105

As homeschooling mamas, you have the precious opportunity to shine light into your children’s hearts, souls, and minds. In Proverbs, Solomon wrote this about a parent’s teaching:

For the commandment is a lamp
and the teaching is light;
And reproofs for discipline are the way of life . . . .
Proverbs 6:23

 

 

 

 

 

 

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