Outside the Script

The other evening, I had the opportunity to share about homeschooling our children who were what I called "non-squshable" kids. Those who not only wouldn't thrive in an institutional setting, but likely would not even survive it.

I spent lots of time preparing, re-preparing, designing a PowerPoint, praying, requesting prayer, and then speaking for about an hour. That though was not the hardest part or the scariest part of that particular evening.

Without a doubt, the scariest part was the part that could not be pre-planned. The part outside the script. 
Q and A.

My philosophy is that we as parents are the experts on our kids. No one else is or can come close to how well we as parents know our kids - well, other than God who is by far THE Expert. So, when the Q and A came I recognized that I didn't have the answers for other parent about their children whom I had never even met! However, there I was madly praying as I listened to question after question and story after story knowing the One who lives outside my measly little script.

There are so many stories. There are so many people that need encouragement. I pray that God, the One who can encourage daily and constantly, would be in each home that was represented at the meeting, going far above what could be asked or imagined in each and every child's life, in every homeschool, and in every parent. 

God writes the script, is in the script and yet He lives outside the script available to guide when we depend on Him totally.