Mt. Sophia Ideas

Life is full of ups and downs.  We’ve all seen days when the sky is gray, the birds aren’t singing, and the car won’t start.  Just because you love homeschooling doesn’t mean it will always be fun or easy.  Sometimes it’s just plain lousy.

Maybe neither you nor your child can understand logarithms, or the college admissions deadline that you thought was still weeks away is suddenly–TOMMOROW! Or maybe you just woke up on the wrong side of the bed.  For whatever reason, you just start to think, Why me?  This isn’t fair?

You might try to curb your inner grumbling by telling yourself not to overreact or to count your blessings, but you can’t help feeling as if you somehow have a right to be dissatisfied.

Guess what.  You have every reason to be dissatisfied!

Bad days are a blessing because they reveal an important truth: that all is not right in the world . . . yet.

When I have bad days, I think of what Paul says in Romans 8 about the groaning of creation as it awaits Christ’s return to restore all things.  We shouldn’t try to quiet our own groans by hoping that tomorrow will be better.  We KNOW that eternity in heaven will be much, MUCH better. It would be wrong to be satisfied with anything else.

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