Dear Homeschool Mom . . . are you weary?

Dear Homeschool Mom,

Are you feeling weary?

Whether it’s February and the holiday break has made it difficult to get back to a regular routine, or August and you’re trying to get motivated to begin the new school year, there are just some months more difficult than others when you’re a homeschool mom.

On a personal level, I struggle with getting back on track, back to the schedule that we worked so hard to establish in the earlier in the year (or last year). I feel weak and as though I’m failing as a homeschool teacher. And some days, as a mom, too. I grow weary. Looking around at the blogs and social media platforms of other homeschool moms, I don’t think I’m alone. And I am reminded . . .

For when I am weak, then I am strong . . .

I ask my accountability partners to pray for me to get back on schedule, to be diligent in my homeschooling and caring for my health. I pray myself for healing and energy and stamina. And perseverance. I cry out for help. And for forgiveness.

As I spend time alone with Him, in his Word, I don’t have to look far to know from where the strength to continue this race comes. God is faithful to remind me that He is there to strengthen me and to fill in the gaps. I am free to come to him boldly, with confidence. He is waiting with open arms, and blessings to offer the faithful.

My prayer for you (and for me) today is the same prayer Paul offered on behalf of the church at Ephesus . . .

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. ~Ephesians 3:14-21

Immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine. That part of this passage stands out to me as I read and begin to understand that my requests are paltry in comparison to what He able to do for me. What he wants to do for me. And for you.

It’s difficult to understand that which we are unable to even imagine. We are human. We want to quantify it all. But he is not a God bound by our simple limitations.

Unmeasurable is his love.

Unmeasurable is his power.

Unmeasurable is his strength.

And you know what? Because of the Holy Spirit, we have unmeasurable love, power, and strength as well.

It’s true. We don’t even know our own strength.

He is able, sweet sister. And because He is, so are we.

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