We all work together to prepare for lunch and do as many chores as we can before 8:00 AM. We don’t have bakeries or stores in the jungle, so if we want sandwiches we need to bake the bread. Meals don’t come super easy in the jungle. Those clothes need to get on the line so they can dry before the afternoon rain shower reaches us. Our electricity is generated from the sun and solar power, so as soon as the panels are charged, we make sure that the laundry is washing. Being a missionary, our schedule is a full one, but we do it together and over the years I have watched us develop a deep love for family and a loyalty to one another that I wouldn’t trade for a million quiet morning hours. Trying to accomplish all this in the jungle is never dull. We want our boys to prepared for what is ahead of them, for what the Lord has planned for their lives. Our purpose in all areas of study is the same: to be diligent stewards of the resources we have been given so that we can use our lives to serve and glorify God. We have so much information at our disposal, and we can see each area of study as a branch of understanding God our Creator and the world He has placed us in. “We don’t study hard to become clever, or smart, or to make a name for ourselves but so that our lives will glorify God.”Įarly on, I (Libby) wrote a vision statement of sorts for our homeschool family, and in part we stated that “we don’t study hard to become clever, or smart, or to make a name for ourselves but so that our lives will glorify God.” Education is a privilege.
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