Blushing and Honesty
Yesterday's post included a link to Spunky's site, where I misinterpreted a statement she had made. I am so sorry Spunky, boy is my face red. Anyway, I am so glad she happened to read that post and correct me. I would have felt awful if I had misled people. I wouldn't want to be untruthful at all, even if it was by accident.
It is so important that our children see us living honest, humble and truthful lives. Something as simple as giving the extra quarter back to the store clerk, or being corrected in a misquote and humbly accepting the reproof is what our children need to see. But there is more. How many times do we try to present ourselves without any flaws? I don't mean our appearances although some people go to extremes there also ( I gave that up a long time ago, if it's hopeless, it's hopeless-grin), I mean what our lives are really like.
I know that it is easy when talking with some to give the impression that I have it all together, expesially if they don't know me. Once you get to know me than of course you know that I am FAR from together, but I am still growing.
For example, on this blog I could carefully post only the homeschool items which make us appear to have it all together and be "successful" homeschoolers. But that wouldn't be the full picture. Yesterday, I had absolutely no desire to do any school, and it took every ounce of strength I had to get it done with my youngers. The olders I let off of school and had them do extra chores. I was in the mood to clean and so school fell behind. Did I have my children cheerfully helping? Nope, we are still working on that, so there was a lot of prodding involved. And my children ended up doing a lot of playing when I dropped my prod. Was that good? No, if we were going to focus on work and diligence instead of book learning for the day I shouldn't have dropped my prod, I should have been diligent in my training. But I am not perfect, I struggle, and I think honesty is what we as a homeschool community need to share with one another. It is so hard though with Pamela Perfect and Ellen Excellent giving us examples of their days.
I am not saying that I think we should always just blurt out our struggles, but if we are sharing we shouldn't try to gloss things over like we tend to do. We should be honest with each other. Especially if we are Christians where we should be bearing one anothers burdens. How can we bear them if we aren't even honest enough to share them? So, on this blog I will fight my natural tendency to make things appear better by leaving out the not so perfect details and try to share honestly and hopefully with humility.
And I try to live my daily life the same way. I hope my children see this and learn to be honest in their lives. And you know what? God blesses it! I can't tell you how many times people have made comments about how amazing I am. I am always shocked because they KNOW my flaws. But somehow God works a transformation and only His goodness shines through! What a miracle!
It is so important that our children see us living honest, humble and truthful lives. Something as simple as giving the extra quarter back to the store clerk, or being corrected in a misquote and humbly accepting the reproof is what our children need to see. But there is more. How many times do we try to present ourselves without any flaws? I don't mean our appearances although some people go to extremes there also ( I gave that up a long time ago, if it's hopeless, it's hopeless-grin), I mean what our lives are really like.
I know that it is easy when talking with some to give the impression that I have it all together, expesially if they don't know me. Once you get to know me than of course you know that I am FAR from together, but I am still growing.
For example, on this blog I could carefully post only the homeschool items which make us appear to have it all together and be "successful" homeschoolers. But that wouldn't be the full picture. Yesterday, I had absolutely no desire to do any school, and it took every ounce of strength I had to get it done with my youngers. The olders I let off of school and had them do extra chores. I was in the mood to clean and so school fell behind. Did I have my children cheerfully helping? Nope, we are still working on that, so there was a lot of prodding involved. And my children ended up doing a lot of playing when I dropped my prod. Was that good? No, if we were going to focus on work and diligence instead of book learning for the day I shouldn't have dropped my prod, I should have been diligent in my training. But I am not perfect, I struggle, and I think honesty is what we as a homeschool community need to share with one another. It is so hard though with Pamela Perfect and Ellen Excellent giving us examples of their days.
I am not saying that I think we should always just blurt out our struggles, but if we are sharing we shouldn't try to gloss things over like we tend to do. We should be honest with each other. Especially if we are Christians where we should be bearing one anothers burdens. How can we bear them if we aren't even honest enough to share them? So, on this blog I will fight my natural tendency to make things appear better by leaving out the not so perfect details and try to share honestly and hopefully with humility.
And I try to live my daily life the same way. I hope my children see this and learn to be honest in their lives. And you know what? God blesses it! I can't tell you how many times people have made comments about how amazing I am. I am always shocked because they KNOW my flaws. But somehow God works a transformation and only His goodness shines through! What a miracle!
posted by Dee at 5:56 AM
2 Comments:
I, also, have been struggling just to keep my head above water! I am blessed by your honesty.
you're a sweetie Dee. And I took no offense to your statement. Thanks for your honesty. It tells alot about you.
And if anyone figures this whole thing out let me know (and throw a life raft my way!)
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