If you've read my book, Habits for a Sacred Home, you will know that one of my big passions in life is helping families invite God into every area of their home, creating a rule of life that nurtures peace.
This is why having a homeschool vision is so important to me.
If you don't know what is important to your family, or what your essentials are, it is hard to nurture the most important things.
For my family, nurturing a reverence for God and awareness of his love for them and his power that equips them to be ministers of the gospel in their homes, workplaces, and communities is an essential value.
I nurture this reverence and awareness through the books we read, the poetry we listen to, our daily morning time routine, and the conversations we have.
Deuteronomy 6 says, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
We are curating a culture in our home that will help order our children's affections as they grow into adulthood.
We are competing with strong forces, the phones that keep us distracted, the entertainment that keeps us numb, but when we have nurtured homes that are peaceful, where children can experience the still waters, and green pastures of God's holy presence, they will know what they are missing when they fill their time with empty pursuits.
In The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis he writes,
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
When we give our children an education that is immersed in joy and peace and an awareness of God through;
- morning prayer and Bible reading
- quiet times in nature
- happy evenings laughing together over games
- through heartwarming stories like Little Britches and Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- engaging projects like baking bread, or building a volcano together
- looking at art like Christ Pantocrator
- and listening to poetry like God's Grandeur,
we are giving our children a taste for true pleasure.
Psalm 16 describes it this way-
"You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand."
with eternal pleasures at your right hand."
So let's fill our homes with hope and joy and peace. Let's help our children know how lovely and good is our Lord. Let's give them a faith based education that nurtures awe and wonder.
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