A Palm Sunday Reflection: Are We Crazy Enough To Homeschool?

This super inspiring blog post by Ann Voskamp, entitled, "Why Be Crazy Enough to Homeschool?," comes at a perfect time — Palm Sunday (or Passion Sunday), the official start of Holy Week.

Photo from Fr. Stephen Cuyos, msc

Since we're still undecided whether or not to continue homeschooling, we hope this special period of reflection, prayer and fasting this Holy Week will enlighten us in terms of this decision (and so many others!).

For everyone out there who is homeschooling, thinking of homeschooling, thinking about stopping homeschooling (is my grammar correct here? LOL!), I highly recommend Ann's post. The following excerpt from her post left me in tears actually:

... homeschooling is this magnificent crucible, to reveal impurities and sinfulness and brokenness. 

It keeps us on our knees. Homeschooling often hurts and disappoints. 

You cry and wonder if you are insane to try to educate these children, to disciple these little hearts, while laundering, cooking, cleaning, managing a household, and still being a wife, a sister, a daughter, a missionary in your community, a servant to Christ and in your faith community. And He smiles and say that He walks with you, has grand and glorious purposes, and He understands radical and crazy!
Homeschooling is about going higher up and deeper in, for you learn to sacrificially love in ways you have never loved before. You come to know your own heart in ways you never imagined, the souls of your children in intimate, very real ways.

For you will be together, making memories together, laughing together, crying together, praying together, and asking forgiveness together. Throughout your day, you worship God, together. And you learn to die-to-self together. It’s about doing hard things… together. And there will be no fragmentation of learning, home-life, friends, work, God. 

We keep homeschooling to weave a one-piece life – hallowed threads of parenting, love, pain, education, growing, stumbling, creativity, forgiveness, wonder, sacrifice, and God all woven together. 

We wear it, and it’s not perfect and it’s messy — but oh, it’s a good fit for us!

Praying for you this Holy Week and beyond,

Tina