Without God There’s No Telling Where You’ll End Up
When we first moved into this old farmhouse, our friend Dena suggested that Ray and I put a table on the front porch and have breakfast out there, just the two of us. It was years before we put a table on the front porch, but we started the just-the-two-of-us breakfasts right away. When we still had children at home, our breakfasts were a nice and quiet — though brief — time to connect; and when my mama moved in four years ago, Ray and I continued to cherish the time for just the two of us.
Ray and I have breakfast in different places around the house. Sometimes we eat in the living room, sometimes in the library, and sometimes in our room. We pray for the hearts, souls, minds, and health of our children and for special needs among people we know. We discuss all kinds of things, some mundane, others philosophical, some urgent, others long-term.
Last Friday, as we chatted about news we found disturbing and a government requirement that we don’t believe is in keeping with the American ideal of personal freedom, I asked Ray how both of these things, which seem contradictory to me, could be true at the same time.
“Without God there’s no telling where you’ll end up,” Ray replied.
Hold on to your Heavenly Father, precious mamas, and share Him and His Word and His Way with your children. Remember why you are homeschooling.
For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you,
which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois
and your mother Eunice,
and I am sure that it is in you as well.
For this reason I remind you
to kindle afresh the gift of God
which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity,
but of power and love and discipline.
2 Timothy 1:5-7