Rearing Bright Children
On a recent trip from our home to Chattanooga, Tennessee, Ray and I stopped to look out over the Sequatchie Valley where God was shining spotlights through the clouds and onto the green valley below.
A few days later I glanced out my window and saw a bright glow on the hills across the road from my own front yard.
Light is beautiful and it makes other things beautiful. Light helps us see what is there but what we cannot see until the light shines.
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.
The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.
Proverbs 4:18-19
Last Sunday I had the fun opportunity of substituting in the Sunday School class that two of my grandchildren attend. Our little twenty-month old went over to the cabinet, opened the door, and pulled out the battery-operated candle that the regular teacher hands him each Sunday so he can “let his light shine” while we sing “This little Christian light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine . . .”
By homeschooling you have an expanded opportunity to help your children become bright children. Some will become brighter in the way that the world usually defines being bright, but all can become the kind of bright children that God wants them to be.
May we mamas say yes to the light and no to the darkness, while we let our lights shine and teach our children to do the same.
For you were formerly darkness,
but now you are Light in the Lord;
walk as children of Light
(for the fruit of the Light consists in all
goodness and righteousness and truth),
trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:8-10
Ray and I are at the NCHE convention in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, today. Please stop by if you are there, too!