Moving On
Everyone has their own 'how to' story. I still believe in what appears to be 'time and chance'—as it's called in scripture. But I don't believe that things really happen by chance. We are in the midst of the battle and don't see it clearly.
Back in the day there was a singing group 'Brazil 66' with Sergio Mendez. I remember doing the dishes in my Grandmother's kitchen and listening to the song 'Fool on the Hill'.
That's who I felt like living at the top of Corkscrew Hill. I seemed to see things that others did not. Things that other people couldn't see.
Like John the Baptist was one crying in the wilderness. My instinct has been to stay away from people giving free stuff. Like my Adorable Cousin told the clerk that was berating Cousin's purchase of bacon: If my ancestors could walk across this continent with bacon grease dripping from their lips...
Those first Europeans that came to this country were searching for a life where they could serve God.
The large part of the beginning of the homeschool movement was Christians who wanted to honor God. Back in the 1970s and 80s when my friend viewed what was called 'family living' classes and called them 'pornography', her question was, 'What can I do? He's required to take this class to graduate?'
What, indeed could a parent do in this situation? The government school would physically take your kids if you didn't comply. Just as they had marched kids away from parents in the 1800s, nothing much had changed in favor of parent's rights.
We still hear of public schools that are to this day openly indoctrinating their school children. Either in sex education and/or political views, or even in their own social issue viewpoints.
Our own small community school with our two oldest boys? My understanding was their program was bringing in 'alternative' lifestyles to speak to the classes. Ever wonder why and how the acceptance of abortion and alternative life styles has burgeoned in such a short span?
Even in families that it is counter to their beliefs? And our third grade child that they had slapped into remedial reading, because 'he's at the top of his class now, but may have problems in the future'? They were dumbing him down. It didn't work with reading.
He truly was beyond their scope in grammar and reading, but it did work in his math. He wasn't honest enough in his math to come to me when we were homeschooling, but his college professor showed him what had happened and pulled him out.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5) And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6) And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7) And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8) And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9) And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
