If they learn nothing else…

may they learn to call upon the Lord.

Would that I be an example to these precious souls who live, walk and talk with me…

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

~ Moses, Deuteronomy 32.2

“And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered” (Joel 2:32).

Why do not I call on His name? Why do I run to this neighbor and that when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? Why do I sit down and devise schemes and invent plans? Why not at once roll myself and my burden upon the Lord?

Straightforward is the best runner–why do not I run at once to the living God? In vain shall I look for “deliverance anywhere else; but with God I shall find it; for here I have His royal shall to make it sure.

I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word “Whosoever” is a very wide and comprehensive one. Whosoever means me, for it means anybody and everybody who calls upon God. I will therefore follow the leading of the text, and at once call upon the glorious Lord who has made so large a promise.

My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver. –C. H. Spurgeon

{excerpted from my daily devotional: Streams in the Desert, Cowman}

Lord, help me to be a living example of this. Help me remember to do the same in my life; today, and tomorrow… to call upon YOU, to let go of this angstful stress when my pre-conceived notions of what our day week year ought to have looked like cloud my view of what you are doing today, in our lives, hearts; in our homeschool… Give me eyes that I may see. “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”

Embracing the adventure,