When God Speaks...

     When God Speaks....    Sometimes we listen and obey.  Sometimes we make excuses. Sometimes we ignore God. Sometimes we wonder if it's us or God speaking. With me, it's been all of these at different times of my life. But I'm so thankful God didn't give up on me.  Actually, I believe He has prepared me for His Mission through my Bible studies, church worship, prayers and other means.  I have been feeling God really getting my attention recently. I've had a lot of downtime while recovering from the flu, which ended up in bronchitis. I'm trusting God to heal me though. 

     I've always been interested in helping children learn to read. I homeschooled my children most of their school life and some of my grandchildren. They can read very well now. Last year , out youngest grandchild, Jr, fell behind in his sight words and AR reading in K5. We didn't think he would even pass. But of course, with my background of homeschooling, and God's nudging me, I knew he could catch up with my help. Afterall, he was doing great in everything else. Sure, as a kid, he said he didn't care if he failed or not. I told him that when my siblings and I were going to school, that we didn't have the option of caring. Either we studied or paid the consequences. That's a whole story in itself.  So, I told him, I was gonna help him and we both would work hard. Our hard work paid off!! He learned all of his sight words and read all his AR books before school was even finished. Of course, he had a great teacher too. Thankyou, Amanda Hughey!  God gave me the gift to do that, but I gave , still do, God all the credit. Jr also received a lot of awards and scored really high on the STAR test. So proud of him. This year (1st grade) he's reading great and making all A's!!!  

     I believe God is calling me to finish the 2 books I've written and write more children's books to help with illiteracy. Who knows what else God leads me to in this area. I've been making excuses for not writing but no more!! I'm trusting God with the whole process. It's very daunting, to say the least.  I will continue with my blogging , for writing practice. 

       Please keep me in your prayers and if you'd like to leave a comment, I'd love to hear from my readers/followers. Yeah, I plan to learn more about blogging too. God will help me though. I trust him with every step!!!