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Classic Re-Post: Just Live Your Life With Your Kids
By Kendra | January 25, 2010
It’s Monday, and today we find out whether or not our sweet girl will have to undergo another surgery to remove deep pockets of infection. An email from a friend reminded me recently of this post, originally posted after our daughter’s accident. It remains apropos.
Originally posted January 1, 2009
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I’ve done a lot of thinking these past few weeks I haven’t been blogging. My husband and I have been mulling many things over, including our parenting, our children, and our family life.
We’ve been homeschooling for 12 years now, and we’ve seen many things come and go. We’ve jumped on a few bandwagons ourselves, some to our detriment, others to our benefit. Here’s the thing: there is no one right method of parenting/homeschooling/churching for every family. Some of us get so caught up in a system, an ideology, or a paradigm that we can’t just live life.
Ever since Mighty Joe battled fiercely for his seven-week-old life, my whole entire perspective has changed. I feel ill-equipped to give anyone advice. Some of you have emailed me over the break asking for my opinion or wisdom and you know it took me weeks to reply. I just don’t feel worthy of that position. You’re free to continue emailing me, but do so with the understanding that I don’t have all the answers. Actually, I only have one: love God.
And live your life! Boldly! With great joy! Passionately!
Because as my dear friend Heather whose husband Eric passed away a year ago this month will tell you, there are no guarantees. Their family took up Point of Grace’s How You Live as their theme song. That never seemed so poignant as the night we knew Eric was not going to live another day on this earth.
“Make peace with God, make peace with yourself. Because in the end, there’s nobody else…”
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Topics: Life with Preschoolers | 7 Comments »
January 25th, 2010 at 4:29 am
Great reminder!! Thank you! Still praying for Caroline!
January 25th, 2010 at 5:44 am
we are still praying for your sweet daughter and your family
love
– kathi
January 25th, 2010 at 6:15 am
Amen my dear friend! My prayers are with you as you go through this rough time.
2Cr 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Love,
Jeannie
January 25th, 2010 at 6:30 am
I love this! I’ve been a parent educator now for 15 years and every year that I live I feel less and less comfortable giving advice…..
January 25th, 2010 at 7:59 am
Praying today for your sweet daughter.
January 25th, 2010 at 8:24 am
Amen! We have had an interesting past year and a half ourselves, everything from loss of income, in which we lost our home in part due to the economy and to my husband not being able to work because of chronic pain….his chronic pain led the docs to prescribe a combination of meds that 3 weeks later caused a condition they are calling an anoxic brain injury, we do not believe that is the case, but that is too much to go into here, anyhow we have been forced to only ‘live life’ and I believe our children and ourselves for that matter have learned so much more this past year+ that I would not trade it for the world!
One thing we have learned is the love of God, His faithfulness and what pruning and refining is, as well as learning to count it all loss…this has been a difficult time, but I would not trade it for the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBJzUnxiKwA
Praying for your precious daughter…and for you mom, & dad….your family has been a blessing to me (as well as Heathers for that matter) as I honestly believe God led me to both of your families blogs where you shine the love of Christ even in the tribulations each of your families have been through.
God bless you all!
Kelly
January 27th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
May your daughter be blessed in HIs arms.
Even in your crisis, you were used to speak to a situation that I’m facing. Thank-you.
Be comforted in Christ’s love.