Public Vs Parochial Vs Homeschool.

I'm not for any of it. I am for the Word of God over our lives. Stop rolling your eyes! Lol! I see you. One environment does not ensure your desire for your child. Of that I am most positive. I'll stake my life on it, that's how sure I am. You wanna know HOW I know?

Figure 1.1. That's me. Not a great picture, but if Glamour hasn't hounded me yet, I think I can be pretty secure in the fact that no picture will matter at this juncture. I grew up in a Christian home, and I attended a Christian school from the time I was in fourth grade until the day I graduated. Those environments, although infused with godly influences, did not impact my heart. At the age of 18, I walked far from God, and at the age of 20, I actually thought I would never look back.

Figure 2.1 That's my hot husband. He also grew up in a Christian home, and his parents were heavily involved in ministry. Unlike me, he attended a public school. Neither environments impressed his heart toward God. Like me, he made choices that took him further from God than he ever thought he would go.

Figure 3.1 Adam and Eve. They were home schooled. Right smack dab in the perfection of home and POWERFUL Parental guidance, they were educated. And what happened? They fell. And great was their fall.

Consider well your own environments, where you have learned, loved, and been led - in whatever you believe. You would be figure 1.2, 2.2, or 3.2. respectively. Whatever lessons your heart has embraced in this life - the environment is just details. Now - don't get me wrong. God chooses His environments very carefully, because in each TRUTH is posted boldly on the "white board", and from there it can be learned, practiced, and lived out. No one is a teacher like our God, and where we learn is a classroom He has set up - called us to - and instructed in with His eye on us. I'm not makin' that up either. From the garden, to the wilderness, to a mountain, a promised land, Egypt, and then back again to Canaan, until Babylon. Ahhh Babylon. Yes, God chose where His people would learn to choose Him, where they would learn what it meant to be loved by Him, to love Him back, and serve Him out of that love. Environment is just a workbook for the lessons of the heart.

So what should you choose for your babes? Who can tell anyone that, but God? I know what I'd pick for your children, but that doesn't make it right. I most certainly would not have told Abraham on the way up that mountain that it was right to sacrifice His child. And if he said, "God told him too", I would have thought he was out of his ever livin', God fearin' mind! God did tell Him too. We can read that Word in Genesis 22. Our God instructed His people through His Word, and HE STILL DOES. My husband and I go to Him daily, before the crack of dawn, seeking God's Word over our lives - in our lives - for His light THROUGH our lives. We are two cracked pots that's for sure - but we know who our Redeemer is - and HE will not fail us - nor will he fail our babes.

And "hearing from God", my friends, is not something that goes on in my head - or my husband's head - apart from His Word. Like, "Okay here is what I think God is saying we should do: we need to put our kids in the public school. God said so." God has spoken off the pages of The Bible, and THAT WORD - was all that needed to be said for he and I to know that GOD would grow us and keep us for Himself in this foreign land. What that looks like under your roof, and under my roof, in your city and my city, will look similar in one way only - we will seek Him. See, if I follow you, or if you follow me in what living for God specifically looks like - who is our God? So if you wanna know what Scripture my husband and I were led to and landed on, and are clinging to daily, and clinging to every fall when our babes board a bus that drives them into an influence that we pray THEY influence - and we as well with them...INHALE... I'm not gonna tell ya. That would spoil what God has in store for you! Your own eye to eye - heart to heart - with your KING! Sheweee that's an amazing privilege!

Be encouraged. His Word is "a lamp to your feet and a light to your path". He's holding it out there for us. We can't miss Him. Light is loud and clear.