My facebook friend posted the BEST line the other day!
It only takes…One Macy’s catalog to convince me I’m not beautiful enough…One Timberdoodle catalog to convince me that I’m not homeschooling enough….One Vision Forum catalog to convince me I don’t have character enough…Yet just One Word from God shows me that I am loved more than enough! Thank you Lord!
~ Dear Sister of Spunky Homeschool
God’s Word says in Jeremiah 31:3:
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”
As much as these catalogs are great and wonderful resources, they can sometimes lead to feelings of insecurity. Your standing before God has nothing to do with catalogs. Homeschoolers, and homeschool catalogs, will often share only the bright-and-beautiful side of homeschooling. But even those people in the magazines aren’t perfect.
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23
I have photos in my photo album of perfect children doing great homeschool projects too. I can tell you, those things did NOT happen everyday! In fact, when they DID happen, it was so unusual I ran to get my camera and take a picture!
Of course you’re going to have a bad day now and then. Don’t keep score next to a picture of impression of a homeschool magazine or even a homeschool mom blog. It’s an unreasonable expectation. Nobody is perfect, we just sometimes accidentally have a perfect moment. Don’t beat yourself up. It happens.
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Kela says:
I’m the same way with the camera!!
It may be that that’s the case for even the catalog/magazine families. LOL
I’m familiar with Spunky’s humor and truth. She keep’s it real when others dare not.
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:14 am
karen says:
What a great line!!!!
January 2nd, 2010 at 9:08 pm
J W says:
I can’t tell you how often I wanted to burn those magazines with the perfect homeschool families with 20 stairstep children dressed in matching uniforms that each child (even the baby) sewed themselves… There are 4 very imperfect people in my household, and life is messy and chaotic. But we love each other a lot, and we know God loves us. And that gets us through the day.
January 7th, 2010 at 8:22 pm