I think every homeschooler to some degree or another struggles with the constant question, "Am I doing enough?  Are my kids learning enough?  Am I spending enough hands-on time with them?  Maybe I should be doing more......etc, etc."

I think one of the biggest fringe benefits of homeschooling is the time in prayer that I spend with God.  It seems I'm always praying and asking God, "Should I be doing more?  How do I handle this situation?, etc."  This past week I was reading in Psalms and came to Ps. 62.  I was reading in the Message Bible and this is what it reads:  "My help and glory are in God - granite strength and safe-harbor God - So trust Him absolutely, people; lay your lives on the line for Him.  God is a safe place to be.  Man as such is smoke, woman as such, a mirage.  Put them together, they're nothing; two times nothing is nothing."

Basically, to me it says that if I'm trusting in man for something, I'm trusting in nothing.  I need to be trusting God for everything! 

So I prayed and I asked God to show me where I was trusting man instead of Him and immediately the thought came, "In schooling your kids."  I knew what He was talking about because I'm always looking to the school system thinking, "Ok, kids in grade one are doing this....reading at this level, adding/subtracting at this level, etc."  So I'm looking to man's standards of education and judging my kids' education according to that standard.

I thought about it and said, "But I want to be sure that my kids are well-prepared for adulthood so that whatever they want to be, they won't be limited because of their education.  I don't want them to be lacking in anything."

God immediately replied once again and said, "If you trust in ME and place your standards according to MY standards, your children will lack NOTHING.  In fact, they will be so much further ahead than they ever could be if you measure their success according to my standards and put Me first."

How cool is that?  I find it SO amazing when God speaks.  How amazing is it that the Creator of the entire universe - a universe that the greatest scientist can't even comprehend or find the end of - this amazing God speaks to ME.