I would like to share an article that sums up my feelings in regards to bringing home two of three daughters to homeschool them. I purchased a book titled ' No Greater Joy'. Inside, is a collections of articles from a christian couple that looks quite different from me on the outside. However, the impact of their character was enough for me to declare, " These mountain dwellers are on to something". They put into words, what my God has being showing me.
I would like for you to read the article below as our first official blog and share your thoughts on the matter.
The number of homeschoolers is rapidly increasing. Home-schooling is not just an alternative educational procedure; it is one of many expressions of a whole way of life.
It is the result of loving parents putting on the brakes and saying, “No” to this stampeding system of child-trampling New Agers. Our families will not be devoured and digested, becoming part of the feces of this carnivorous monster called public education, generated by the twisted minds of the morally ill.
As homeschooling parents, you have taken charge of your life to give God his rightful place in training your children. To teach biology in an environment that denies the Author of life is like eating an egg and denying the chicken. Such a process is stupefying—degrading to the intellect. To teach history apart from God is to praise the sculpture and deny the sculptor. To learn science and mathematics apart from the omnipotent God is to throw out the computer and do your computations with a roulette wheel. To teach children to read and then outlaw the reading of the only book written by the God called the Word is like giving a blind man sight and then outlawing seeing.
The public school expelled God from the class room, but when the immorality became a threat to personal satisfaction, as well as personal safety, they started talking about values. They will not get their values back any more than a man will get peaches from a tree he cut up for firewood.
We are not rebels; quite the opposite; we are just the minority who refuse to join a rebellion against God and the truth. We are taking our children to the tree of life growing beside the fountain of knowledge to be refreshed by the Author of life. We will not stoop for anything less. We will not compromise. We will not allow state testing to dictate our curriculum. They have made their position on God and morality clear. We are making our position clear. We will not attend their party, dance to their tune, or employ their fiddler. - Author: Micheal Pearl
Looking forward to your thoughts... Datrice
2 comments:
Great Blog! I am a married to a Weathers--do you have family in Miami,FL? mommy3er@yahoo.com or go to blackhomeschoolers
Datrice,
I read your article in No Greater Joy Magazine, then googled your name and found your blog. I rejoiced when I read your article because I am an African American hs mom that has been impacted by the Pearls ministry. In fact, I decided to become a distributor and get the word out to other black families that God can change the hearts of "strong black women". I too come from a long history of single women and prayed and cried out to God for direction when I saw my bitterness and controlling attitude toward my "Mr. Steady". God sent the book To Train Up A Child, and later Created to be His Help Meet to transform me (my prayer had been for God to fix my husband!).
It has been hard to reach out to people with a book that does not look like it could possibly identify with our culture, but is speaks volumes beyond that. It speaks of the plan of the God who created us and allowed us to become Black, White, Latin, Asian, and every nation, tribe, and tongue.
I thank God for you, your family, and your willingness to write with such clarity the sentiment of my heart. I am going to use your article as an outreach tool in introducing black families to No Greater Joy Ministries.
Thanks again!
Ericka
It's All About Families
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