Homeschooling Through a Crisis (Podcast 11)

The Durenda Wilson Podcast

Durenda Wilson

Education For Kids, Kids & Family:parenting, Kids & Family, Parenting

5.0 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We never know what God is going to call us or our children to, but as we walk our faith out before our kids, we show them what kind of God we serve. As moms, we want to fix things. We want to make everything okay and it HURTS when we can’t.But the truth is that life is messy and it’s hard and even though we want to spare our children of its pains, we would be doing them a disfavor.The very best thing (even though it can be SO hard) is to walk through the pain WITH them, looking and pointing out where we see God’s presence and pointing them back to the cross. Our youngest son was born with a major heart defect and spent the first 2 months of his life in the hospital. A little over 4 years ago, our first grandson went to be with Jesus unexpectedly, just hours before birth. As our family walked through these and other crisis together, we were NEVER more glad that we homeschooled. We had the opportunity to point our kids back to God and to where we saw His presence over and over again. But this took time, patience and understanding...something we could give them because we homeschooled. These experiences impacted them for a lifetime...more than that, for eternity. In this week's podcast, I share what it looks like to homeschool through a crisis and how God can use what feels really yucky to do His deepest and greatest work in our hearts and the hearts of our children. We learn what it feels like to experience His grace and watch Him bind our families together through difficulty. (Scriptures used in the podcast are listed on the blog post at durendawilson.com)Song at the end of the podcast is called "Hold Us Together" by Matt Maher

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. This is Dorenda Wilson. Welcome to this week's podcast. Today I'm going to be talking about
0:15.6	homeschooling through a crisis. You know, I don't know a single family who doesn't occasionally fall on hard times,
0:23.5	whether they be financial, relational, the loss or sickness of a loved one, or some other kind of
0:30.2	grief. It can be tempting to want to insulate our children from hard times, but the truth is that trials are a part of life.
0:40.8	And it doesn't mean that we need to give up on homeschooling.
0:45.3	I'm going to talk about more of this a little further in the podcast, but right now I just want to
0:51.7	introduce myself if you don't know me.
0:55.6	I'm married to Daryl.
0:57.3	We've been married for 28 years.
1:01.2	We have eight kids, ages 13 to 26.
1:06.8	We have four grandkids, and we have been homeschooling for over 20 years.
1:09.8	So it's been good. It's been good to be home with our kids all that time. And our family has
1:16.6	walked through several difficult times throughout the years. And I'm going to share some of those on
1:23.1	this podcast. But I am excited about talking about how it can actually really benefit our families
1:31.1	to walk through these things together. For right now, I need to go ahead and let those who are
1:38.1	maybe new to the podcast, let you know that you can connect with me on Facebook or Instagram.
1:44.0	Facebook is Dorinda Wilson and Instagram is at Duranda Lee Wilson.
1:49.6	Also, you can go to my blog, which is Durinda Wilson.com,
1:52.9	and I would love for you to go and check out some of the things I've written there.
1:56.9	I have several other podcasts.
1:59.4	I started this podcast a couple of months ago, and it's just been
2:06.0	such a blessing for me, and I'm loving reading the reviews and the ratings and the comments
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