1 Corinthians 13 for Home- Schooling Moms*

 

Though I teach with the very best skills

But do not have love,

I am just drawing attention to myself.

And if i have experience, and knowledge of all the best techniques, and test results proving my effectiveness

But do not have love,

I am wasting my time.

And if I work hard, sacrificing all my money, my time, and my energy

But do not have love,

It adds up to nothing.

The loving teacher is paitent with her children, allowing them to learn according to their God-given temprerments and developmental rates.

She is kind, treating her children respectfully.

She dose not compare herself with others.

She dose not brag about her accomplishments, and is not smug about teaching her own children.

She dose not try to be like anyone else, but acts appropriate to the way God made her.

She is not irritable and pushy and insistant upon making her children fit into her lesson plans.

She is more concerned with prompting truth and beauty than with criticizing those who don't.

She perseveres in developing her own character, believing that God's ways are always best. She is not a quitter.

Love never fails.

If there are creative ideas, they will be replaced.

If there are great cirricula, they will be superseded.

If there are effective techniques, they will be improved.

All that we know now is only a part.

Only later will God reveal education at it's best.

When I was a child, I had unrealistic expectations.

As an adult, I know better.

Now abideth Faith ,Hope, and Love.

But the greatest of these is LOVE.

* And Dads

 

This convicts me so much as I read it. There is so much room for thought and growth. I thought that it would be good to share in my journal, but God thought that it would be good to remind ME of how I need to be more sensitive to His Spirit as to how to train my children. I have alot of aplologizing to do, and alot of changes to make. I need to read 1 Corinthians to my kidoes. It is a wonderful Valentine love letter to us from the Lord.