A friend once told me that when she and I were discussing homeschooling, I said something that stuck with her. Something I don't even remotely remember saying. And because I can't recall even thinking it, I can't remember the exact wording.
Only the gist: Your children's teacher should be someone that you want them to be like.
Now that my friend mentioned it... (since obviously I didn't hear it the first time. You know, the time it came out of my mouth!) ...it's stuck with me as well.
And now I find myself asking: What do I want my children to become? What character traits will we focus on during school? put weight on during conversation? reward and honor during family times?
Will it be math? Do I want my children to excel in math? to be able to solve complex math problems in their head? or reading? do I want my elementary school daughter to be capable of writing a dissertation on War and Peace? or how about Spanish? Should I push them to become fluent by semester's end?
Um. No. Though I do want them to eventually excel in their studies, it's not what I want them to become. Math teachers. Well known scholars. Linguistic intructors.
I mean, sure they could do any of those things and I'd be proud of them. But it's not what I want them to become. You know?
I want them to become women of integrity. women of grace. women of power. ultimately women of faith who can stare the Enemy in the face and not waiver. Women who know the authority that they carry. whose Name they represent and the power behind it.
And so because of that...our home schooling day will start out with reading of the Word. applying to our lives. hearing miraculous testimonies. essentiallly saturating ourselves with worship of the King. until walking in the Supernatural realm in thought and deed becomes a natural way of living for them.
Until they become like that which they read. Until they become like He whom they study.
