Rhythm

The Lord is really working on me with my home schedule.

I like the Waldorf example of building rhythm in your life.  That is what has been missing in my life since moving over a year ago.  We live in a tiny house, in a big city in the South.  Rhythms here seem confused, and I was confused.

Last night the Lord had a word for me - it was Rhythm - but not just any rhythm.  He brought to mind how He has given us the example of rhythm.  Our natural world is filled with rhythm.  Creation itself was filled with rhythm - day and night, the sun travelling across the sky and the moon and stars in their repetitive paths, the cycle of water and of life itself.  We are born, we multiply, we die.  It is all a natural rhythm.  There are many more and I challenge you to make your own list of rhythms that God has given us for an example.  I have come up with dozens!  But what does that mean to MY life?

My homeschooling has always been a lifestyle to me.  Our lives have been filled with and reflected our choice to homeschool.  What I have not previously realized is that, while I talked a big talk, I have walked a smaller walk.  Homeschool was not only a lifestyle but it was our whole life next to God.  Now I realize that by limiting myself in that way I was missing out on God's blessings, especially of joy and peace!

Where does that leave me now?  I am revisiting my entire life rhythm.  I am prioritizing God where he needs to be.  I am making a lifestyle of homeschooling but not a lifestyle ABOUT homeschooling, if you can understand the difference I am stating.  I will be incorporating school INTO our lives, not INSTEAD OF our lives.  There's a difference. And the difference will start me on my way to a Godly rhythm.