A Few Things...

Warning...I am going to jump around on this post from subject to subject. Does that happen to anyone else? There are several different things you would like to say, all on different subjects? So that leaves me with no good title for my post. Anyway, we are about to move into the new house. Finally!! Friday is the big day. Although I have been working on getting my kitchen moved all week a little at a time. I'm not sure how it's all going to work with sleeping arrangements and everything. Like, if we will actually sleep there Friday night or move the beds on Sat. We'll see. Hopefully I will remember in the chaos to take some moving in pictures.

Ellie has had a good first 2 weeks back at preschool. She is pretty tired, but seems to be handling it better than last year. Luke seems a little lost without her. One day last week he was just lying on the floor. I said "Luke, are you tired? Do you want to get up and play something or do you just wanna lie there for awhile?" He answered that he just wanted to lie for awhile. He is usually pretty excited when it is time to go get her in the afternoon and then shortly after they say hello to each other and hug(sometimes), the fighting begins. It's like he doesn't know what to do without having her around to give him a hard time.

Ellie seems to be learning more this year, or at least she is telling me more about it. Several new songs, and today she was pretending to read and I heard her say "I pledge allegiance to the kitties". Now, this is opening up an entirely new subject that I have yet to blog about, but I will just say that I have felt a conviction in the past six months or so (still praying about all the details) for my children to have a Christian education. And since there are no Christian schools here in this small town, it seems to be more of a conviction to homeschool. I will post more on this later, but I will say that I have never been someone that thought I would homeschool my children. I still selfishly do battles in my heart and head over it, but since I have heard Ellie singing to me all these new songs and repeating all the new things she is learning, it has been confirmed once more. She (children) are a sponge! And their minds are being shaped everyday. I just don't feel comfortable letting a government school system take over that responsibility. Not that there are not Godly teachers in the public school system and Praise God for them. I have been reading Voddie Baucham's book "Family Driven Faith" and he says this much better than I can.

"I applaud men and women whom God has called to teach in government schools. These people are front-line warriors, and they need to be right where they are. However, there is a big difference between sending fully trained disciples into enemy territory and sending recruits to our enemy's training camp. If we do the latter, we shouldn't be surprised when they come home wearing the enemy's uniform and charging the hill of our home while waving an enemy flag."

So, basically all I'm saying is Ellie is picking up what they are teaching her and it confirms in my heart that (for now) she is not a fully trained disciple. And she will learn whatever she is taught. Please don't think that I trying to push my convictions. I just want to share where God has us right now and how He continues to confirm this in my heart.

Okay, on to a little something about Oprah. I watch her every now and then, like if it's a good informational show. But most of the time it makes me so frustrated and saddened at the same time. The things she says are so off. She does some wonderful things, for sure, and physically helps so many people. But at the same time, she is leading so many people down a road that will in the end lead to death. What scares me too, while she is talking about things like "You have to find your calling, and I firmly believe people are put on this Earth to do good and figure out what that is" is the way the people in the audience are looking at her. They are hanging on every word she says. Today she had a man on the show who had left his million dollar job to start schools for children all over the world. (Again, this is not a bad thing in and of itself) They were both discussing how education is the key to ending poverty. And she is clear how strongly she feels about that. She made this statement: "Education is the food that will fill them forever". Jesus says in John 4 "Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." It's scary what a following she has. I do not pretend to know what Satan is up to. But I do know that Scripture says this: "Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." 1 Pet. 5:8, "...for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light." 2 Cor. 11:14. It also talks about in 1 John 2, how there is one Antichrist that is coming, but many antichrists have arisen. I pray believers will have discernment about her and the things she claims!