"We love because He first loved us" (I John 4:19).
I took a sip of my lukewarm unsweetened tea. Very different in
Massachusetts from the cold sweet tea I loved so much back where we were from
in Georgia.
I scanned the group gathered to eat lunch―my husband, Jerry, our eight-year-old
Aaron, six-year-old Bethany, and a host of new people we were just getting to
know. My husband, a pastor, and I, a worship leader, were here to help lead services
at a family camp just north of Boston.
“When does school start for your children?” our new friend, Elizabeth,
asked. She had been the person who initially contacted us about coming to the
camp.
“We start next week after we return home.” I’d been planning and
pulling together resources for our second year of home school before we’d left
to come to Massachusetts. Our daughter would be joining her brother for the
first time as a home schooler after going to kindergarten in a traditional
school setting.
A little voice said, “Mama, I
want a desk like Aaron’s.” It was Bethany... (Read more at the Anaiah Press site)