Thank you Aaron

When we made the decision for our kids to go to public school, the only other option was homeschooling. We couldn't afford to send our kids to private school, and to be honest this just wasn't an option to me at all. Homeschooling only became an option because the mother in me wanted to protect my kids, I wanted them home safe with me, away from the dangers of this world. I wanted to be in charge all the time. However, I knew this wasn't an option really either. We wanted our kids to have more than just what we could provide from them at home, we wanted them to have friends, and opportunities they would never get if I kept them at home. I tell everyone I would ruin my kids if I let them at home, I know some may think we could ruin them sending them out into the world at such a young age. I have to wonder when did Christians get it so wrong? I always want our family to be a light in such a dark world, by our family, not by my kids. I do not expect my kids to go preaching the gospel at school, I do however expect them to be an example by making right choices, and when they don't make right choices, to see love through the wrong. To show others yes I messed up, but I can turn this around for the good. My children are only 9 and 7 that are in school, and trust me when I tell you, I can give you examples of how this is true. I believe it's by us the parents that really reveal God to these kids in school, that we are the ones by getting involved and being apart of the school, not just sending them off, and expecting them to be the Christians. Allowing children into a Godly home, a safe home. This weekend we had this opportunity, one of Brennan's friends from school came over to play, and ended up staying the night with us, and going to church with us on Sunday, He loved it and wants to come back, he said he was going to ask his daddy to bring him back. This boy helped me to realize that our decision to put our kids into public school was the right choice for us. When Hayden my 4 year old was giving me a kiss, he asked Aaron, do you kiss your mommy all the time? Aaron with sadness in his eyes and the tone of his voice, said I haven't seen my mom in over a year, she does bad things. It took everything in me not to cry. Then when we were sitting at the table having a snack, he looked around and said, This is my dream house, the only thing missing is a German Shepard. Right then in there, I stopped and thanked God for my dream house, my husband, my kids, and everything we are so blessed to have, the things I tend to take for granite. Aaron has his problems and I know a lot of Christians would keep their kids away from this kind of a kid, he doesn't have much, and the more I heard his story the more saddened I became. But all I kept hearing is Thank you from God, for taking care of, loving, and bringing his Child to church. Aaron is Gods, as so all these kids are, we are suppose to bring God to them, not keep God away. When I said we as Christians have it so wrong, this is what I meant. These so called bad kids the ones we think our going to corrupt our kids are Gods kids too, (which if we think a school is going to corrupt our kids, I think we need to ask as parent, what are we doing wrong? The bible says we parents will be held accountable for our kids, not pastors, not church's or schools) and when I get to heaven I want to stand before God and Him thank me for loving all His children. Trust me I know my kids are going to hear and see things that they wouldn't see if I kept them at home, but I much rather them hear and see them while under my roof, where I can train and teach them the ways of God, then when they are older, and for them to go off to college, or work and be doing it on their own. When my kids come home from school with a problem, we take this as a teaching experience and a learning to reveal God to them, to show them what God asks of them, and to love others the way He asks us to do. I think when the bible says be in the world and not of the world, it does not simply mean to live in the world, it means to be apart of it, praying for it, changing it, living it, but with out conforming to it's ways, to stand only on Godly ways. Jesus didn't stay in His home, or in Church, He was out in the world, teaching, and loving all Gods children. He was showing us how God expects us to live.

Train children how to live right, and when they are old
they will not change.
proverbs 22:6