Hey, moms, it's Dorenda Wilson, wife to one, mom to eight, Nana, to seven, and 26-year veteran homeschooling mom.

Today I'm hoping to bring just a little bit of perspective.

I know that over the last 20 months, I can't tell you how many times I have lost perspective

with all that's been going on in the world around us. And it's just really been on my heart

to share some things that I feel like

the Lord wants to remind us of. I think the first thing that I really want to encourage you in

is to just let you know that you are not responsible for the events that have happened or are happening

around us in the world and in our own country and in our culture. I think it's easy to forget

that God is sovereign. These things that are happening, they are events. And by definition,

events are, you know, they're big things. They involve lots of people. But we have to remember

that biblically speaking, God is sovereign over every event that happens.

You know, so many times I think as moms, we struggle with we want to do something.

Like we want to fix it because we want to fix it for our kids.

We want their future to be sure and to be steady and to be safe and secure.

And that's a wonderful desire to have. But at the end of the day,

we actually can't give that to our kids. We can be part of that process as we teach them and train

them and disciple them and ground them in the word. But at the end of the day, that safety and that

security can only come from the Lord.

And so we want to make sure that we're not sending a message to our kids that not that we don't do things,

not that we don't vote properly, not that we don't, if God put something in front of us to do,

to make a difference or to, you know, impact the culture or

whatever, we should do that. You know, I think we have responsibility in that respect. But at the end of the

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