I saw that clip from the movie "Jerry McGuire" the other day. The world truly is all about the money isn't it? I think many of us as homeschoolers avoid the designer clothes and the latest gadgets, but we still need to eat. So, money is an issue for all of us. And those of us who are single moms feel that burden all on our own.
I don't know what other homeschooling single moms do for income. I teach piano lessons, flute lessons and Bradley childbirth classes. I don't have enough students to make it at the moment. But I have enrolled several new ones this week so things are starting to look up.
But, what about when they are not looking up? Financial stress affects most all of us. It can make us crabby and depressed. Sometimes the stress can even affect our relationship with our children.
I have a friend who is a homeschooling single mom. And probably the words that I have heard from her mouth more than any others are "God is my provider." And isn't it the truth? On Sunday the preacher did a lesson on Matthew 6 (the "worry" chapter). Here's a reminder:
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? . . . .
So do not worry saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Matthew 6:25-27, 31-34
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