Today is a beautiful day for me, every Monday, I sit and ponder, browse through my gratitude and family journal and I start with a beautiful word: Thank you.
Thank you, Lord not for “all “you have given me, but thank you for “this” specific blessing which you have poured over me, over my family. Thank You…Thank You!
And this week, I have chosen one of those specific gifts that we have received from Him without deserving it, by His grace, as everything else: Online classes for my children.
We live in Mexico City, where homeschooling is almost un-existing. There are no co-ops in every neighborhood, or lots of friends here and there that home school. We don’t have true Christian schools, least Classical Christian Schools, but God brought to us a great option three years ago, online classes for our “logic and rhetoric ” children.
We are so thankful to our Heavenly Father because we did not know what was about to happen with this decision; and it has brought so many great and unimaginable gifts along.
Great teachers have inspired our children, have ignited a fire in them; a love for logic and rhetoric; pencils and memory drawing; a love for all those big books and thoughtful conversations around them. Thank you, Lord for each one of these teachers.
But not only great teachers and life lessons have we gained, through this great online school; we have gained life lasting friends. … Yes I thought this was almost impossible, “life lasting friends through an online school? Who would think of that?”, but it has happened already. Thank you, O Lord, thank you!
I thank the Lord, because we have met face to face many of these great friends, some have come to visit us, and we have already visited some others; we are praying for each other, we are bearing our burdens together, we have rejoiced together, we talk through Skype very often, we laugh, we miss each other, we long for more time together. Yes, all these great friends have come from this online school.
Thank you, Lord, for the dear friends that will soon come (for the Spring break); thank you for the friends that we’ll see very soon at the End of the year Gathering. Thank you for the expectation.
Thank you, Lord, because you led our paths to this school, and when we thought that we were only going to gain a great academic advantage, you gave us that and so much more.
Thank you, for each one of my students, for each book, for each teacher, for Cindy. Thank you, because you have open a way for us, and have given us so much more than we ever imagined.
And so, we start another great school day…Thank you, Lord.
Follow my gratitude journey here (Week 24)
“Patience in reading God’s word may be a test of the frenzy of our pace and our demanding attitude toward the Bible that it be the way we want, not the way God made it.” ( Reading Numbers 7)
John Piper (DG blog)
cripture makes a point of urging us to remember all of God’s benefits and the many aspects of our salvation. Thus it says that since God has shown himself to be our Father, we are guilty of gross ingratitude, if we do not behave as his children.”
