Our family has a decision to make.
We have homeschooled all three of our children for their entire school career. It has been a good journey for us, not without some challenges (rare is the problem-free trip), but with far more benefits than detriments.
Now, our last student, a 15-year-old freshman in our home school, has asked if he might attend the public high school that sits within a mile down the street from our house. This is the school where several of his peers in our church youth group attend. (This, in itself, does not, to our way of thinking, constitute an adequate reason for granting this request. We have been served well by “If-your-friends-jumped-off-the-roof-would-you-do-it -too?” parenting (that is probably not be the best analogy in this particular situation…). But, this is an earnest heart cry which we are not about to blow off either.)
So, we have talked about it…a lot…and often, in the past week since the question was first plopped on the table.
I just re-read my friend Anna’s post on “Fasting” (2/14/08) at Lent2008 In her list of reasons we might choose to fast, “to seek God’s guidance” appears.
When I thought about observing Lent this year–a new experience for me–I thought fasting might be part of that. But I didn’t envision it coming in this form.
Plain as the nose on my face?
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