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Legislative Update May 5th, 2021

By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations)

A Prayer for Our State

Tomorrow, Thursday, May 6th is the National Day of Prayer. I hope a lot of you will join me at the Capitol on the west steps from 11am to 2pm!

In honor of the National Day of Prayer, I offer up this prayer for our state.

Father God, You are the Creator of all things. You breathe life into every living thing. You sent Your Son, Jesus, to bring light into the darkness. We find ourselves in a very dark time, where right is wrong, and wrong is right. Many who call on Your name, deny Your Supremacy and the truth of Your Word. I see it every day at the Capitol. Some Christian legislators vote to promote immorality, fund anti-God programs, and indoctrinate our children; others just don’t fight against it.

Unique Learners: Up from Their Baseline

By Shari McMinn

This spring I had the privilege of editing and updating CHEC’s popular and essential publication, The Homeschool Guidebook for Colorado. Published more than 30 years ago, then fully updated and reprinted in softcover in 2016, this is the ‘go to’ compendium for Colorado home educators. IT IS SO GOOD! I had forgotten how thorough yet easy to read it is. Chapter 8, titled “Different Learners,” was very helpful in homeschooling my unique learner students for more than two decades. I would like to draw from it for this month’s blog.

Legislative Update April 21, 2021

By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations)

Our Nation Needs Prayer

During the Constitutional Convention, as the members struggled to reach consensus, Benjamin Franklin rose and addressed the assembly with these words: “In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the Contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?”¹