By Shari McMinn
Destressing Your Homeschool
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (Colossians 3:12–17 ESV)
Seven years ago this month, one of my homeschooled teen daughters with special needs joined her Savior Jesus in Heaven. She had made a series of dangerously poor choices. With little ability to discern, she trusted the wrong person, at the wrong time, in the wrong place. She became a crime statistic just shy of her 19th birthday. Though she was a joyful beauty, fun-loving, and a creative genius, it was stressful raising her because of hidden disabilities that overshadowed her life from being abused, neglected, then adopted as a young child. Even more stressful was helping my other children navigate the death of their beloved sister.
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