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    The Healing Rhythms of Home: 30 Days of Devotion for the Homeschool Mom
    The Healing Rhythms of Home: 30 Days of Devotion for the Homeschool Mom
    The Healing Rhythms of Home: 30 Days of Devotion for the Homeschool Mom
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    The Healing Rhythms of Home: 30 Days of Devotion for the Homeschool Mom

    By Brook Legg

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    Homeschool moms, do you ever find yourself questioning your decision to teach your children at home instead of sending them off to school? Sometimes you may wonder if you are teaching them enough, or maybe you just need a break. You might be a mother who is contemplating whether or not you want to homeschool. Homeschooling is a blessed undertaking, and the thirty days of devotion found in the pages of this book are sure to be an encouragement to you as you press on in your calling to homeschool.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJun 19, 2012
    ISBN9781449755881
    The Healing Rhythms of Home: 30 Days of Devotion for the Homeschool Mom
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    Brook Legg

    An encourager by nature, Brook enjoys creatively weaving Scripture and life experience into a devotional format so that others will be blessed and uplifted. She has already seen and experienced many of the choices in homeschooling curriculum, teaching multiple children while nursing a baby, and running on almost no sleep plus a bit of caffeine, so she is familiar with the day-to-day challenges of being a homeschool mom.  In the midst of the daily rhythms of life as a mother who chooses to teach her children at home, she has found that she must take a little time each day to build herself up in the Lord and to find something that reminds her of why she has chosen to follow the call of God on her life to homeschool. Brook loves her life with her family and in her spare time she enjoys having a cup of coffee with her husband, spending time with her children, blogging, and writing devotionals and worship songs.

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      The Healing Rhythms of Home - Brook Legg

      Day 1

      Home

      What comes to mind when you think of home? Do you think about comfort and peaceful things like spending time with your family, reading a book, or listening to your children play?

      When I think of home what often comes to mind is lots of moving around.

      I grew up in many different towns and houses, so I didn’t have any real connections to home. As I have become a wife and mother I have grown to love being at home. Notice I said grown to love - this means that at first I wasn’t so sure about this stay-at-home mom thing. Homeschooling wasn’t even on my radar until my first child was almost three. So we won’t go there just yet.

      Although this book is mainly for stay-at-home moms who homeschool, I want to reach out to all of you who need to connect with home.

      Finding something to love about your home is a good place to start.

      I really think that there is a battle raging in the spirit realm for the hearts of mothers. I am frequently frustrated by my own inadequacies of motherhood, especially as it relates to teaching my children at home.

      I have seen many good friends struggle with whether or not they should homeschool or send their children to school and get themselves a real job. It may be that they are getting their self- worth from the world instead of getting it from functioning in the capacity that God made them to function best -as a mom! That’s what I was doing before I surrendered to God’s will for me in this area during this season of my life.

      Nothing is wrong with working, especially if you need to work so that your family’s needs are met. This is not what I am referring to. I am only referring to those who are see-sawing about working or not when they don‘t need to work. It’s a battle that even I sometimes rent mental space to. Thankfully I am overcoming more often than not. Thanks be to God! So this ends day one. My prayer for today is that you will be led by the Spirit of God into what He has for you concerning motherhood and home-schooling.

      Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

      (Matthew 11:28)

      Day 2

      The Uncluttered

      Heart and Mind

      I don’t know about you, but I sure get confused and befuddled with life when I have clutter lying around, not only clutter that I can see, but even clutter in my mind. For example: When there is paperwork lying around my kitchen or something that the kids got out and didn’t put away, I begin to lose focus. Another example would be if I have spent too much time on the computer. Thankfully I’m not on any social networking sites at this time because I know that time would get away from me. I am not against things like this, but I know myself well enough to know that it would become a major distraction for me. So I choose to avoid it altogether. Personal time can be a good thing-but not too much. This is especially true when my couch is collecting a gigantic pile of laundry. My latest motivator to tackle the laundry pile is to find a good sermon online or a movie and listen or watch while I fold. Enlisting the help of the kids doesn’t hurt either.

      Regarding mental clutter, I would say that for me the worst thing is when I allow others to dictate my schedule or when I have said yes to an activity

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