Where to go from here?

Let's recap:
Rhythm. Homeschool is PART of life, it is NOT life itself. Where do I start? God.  Does God have rhythms? Yes. What rhythms? Dozens. Where do I start with God's rhythms? At the beginning. What was God's first rhythm? Day and night along with a complete time period called a day.

So, do I stop here and begin my quest with day and night? or do I move on to see where God is leading?  I think I have learned to go with the "light" (haha, a little pun) God has given me at this point.  So I am pursuing God's first rhythm of day and night.

Remember those words I pointed out in my last blog post?  I said they sounded important.  I believe this is where they come in.  Morning and Evening.  Those two times of day have special significance.  It is during these two times - the morning and the evening that God made the transition from "night" to "day".  Now I've often been taught by pastors that in the Bible "light" represents good and "dark" represents evil.  I can't believe it for these verses.  In the first place, it is questionable whether evil even existed at this point.  God does only call the "light" good in Genesis 1: 4, so there must be some significance.

I tried to study this out, but really couldn't find much on why God called the "light" good. I tend to lean toward agreeing with Matthew Henry's commentary "The day and the night are the Lord's; let us use both to his honour, by working for him every day, and resting in him every night, meditating in his law both day and night.".  

This much is obvious from observation.  Night is normally a time of rest.  Oh, there are exceptions, but in most cases, night is associated with sleep and quiet.  Ever been in a forest at night?  It is so quiet you can hear a coyote from miles away.  Oh, there are still sounds, but not as many as during daylight hours.  Even in a city the night is quieter.  I can hear the trains that run a couple of miles from my house at night, but not during the day.  I can hear sirens from miles away.  It's because everything else is quieter at night.

So the rhythm of God seems to be daylight work and nighttime rest. But day or night, God is above all.

Maybe my reaction is a little extreme, but right now the days are about equal length.  So we will go to sleep as close to dark as we can and get up as close to dawn as we can.  Obviously, I won't be sleeping that many hours, but since there is a lot more daylight headed our way, before long we will no longer be getting up while it is still dark. This will give us a couple of hours of "down time" after supper and it will alleviate the grand rush in the morning.

The goal is, as close as possible, to imitate the rhythm of the earth that God created for us. Day and Night which God measured out as a day.  This concept follows the Jewish day and night which runs sundown to sundown, although in these passages from Genesis and Creation the days run morning and evening. In this manner a day is a stretch of complete daylight and complete night time. It is more a way of thinking about day and night than it is practical application.

I don't think I am going to delve into this much farther, but move on.  I really feel that what the Lord is trying to impress upon me is that there is daytime and night time and each has a purpose. This is important to my family's rhythm.