An Open Prayer for Homeschool Moms

It’s after midnight… and I’m up working on setting up our first year of homeschool. While I taught our oldest for two months at the end of last year, and loved it, I’m beginning to feel overwhelmed with being responsible for the education of two children while still mothering our little toddler roaming around. For goodness sakes, I just went ahead and read 5 Reasons Not to Quit After the First Year of Homeschooling… you know just in case I feel like quitting before I even make it to the first day.

I’m not going to lie. I’ve struggled the past few weeks with tying up loose ends for homeschool. We were met with some very significant needs in the life of a family member that required much of my time and took up a lot of my thoughts and prayer life. That’s another story, but I now feel behind. Enter the beauty of homeschooling! I set my own pace, create my own schedule, and can scratch it all to just start over again if it isn’t working.

But in my desperate plea to God this evening (now morning), I asked Him for wisdom to make the best choices possible for my daughters and our family on this journey. I realized how many more homeschooling mommas just might be feeling some of the same anxiety, frustration, concern, and excitement that I am. This is my open prayer to God for us who homeschool…

Dear Father,

Help us to be a delight to our children; always allowing Your light to shine through in our actions as they will have greater impact on our children than any subject we teach.

Help us to calm our voices & tempers when frustrations are so high that we want to scream and throw papers up in the air; for You are a Father of patience, love, understanding, & compassion to us.

Help us to instill Your word in their hearts so that on days when they feel frustration with their own children, they will know just what You expect of them.

Help us to remember daily, the joy that homeschooling gave us when we first entertained the idea of being the one who taught our children for as their moms we know them best below You.

Help us to relish in the moments when our children flourish under our teaching; for their will come times when finding the way to reach them is hard and we will need to remember that You helped us do it once & You will help us again.

Help us to have wisdom concerning our children; that we might be insightful to their needs, passions, strengths, and weaknesses.

Help us to praise our children’s accomplishments and efforts; for a little encouragement can make a huge difference now and later.

Help us to show our children that we believe in them by choosing to be engaged in their lives, what they love to learn about, what they are saying, and what their minds produce.

Help us make time for ourselves and our husbands so that we can be refreshed and show them a Chrisitian marriage.

And, Father, help us to realize that we are human with faults and that we are truly a work in progress as well… that some days are going to be tough, but some days are going to be magnificent!… let each day drive us onward to the goal of raising beautiful adults who have a heart after You.

Amen