Devotional

If I was to pick one thing that impacted me the most about being home-schooled it would be devotional.

I heard my mom say one day that the only way she could make it successfully throughout the day was with devotional. And now that I am older with my own kids I can see what she meant. There is nothing like starting out the day singing praises to God.

Mom would play her guitar and we would dance and sing

"sing praises to God sing praises"
"our God is an awesome God"
"King of kings and Lord of lords, glory Hallelujah"

Never once did I not want to do devotional, which is saying something, because there were many times I didn't want to do other school things.

Here are the lyrics to my favorite song. This is written from memory but the autor is Larry Norman.

The outlaw

Some say he was an outlaw, that he roamed across the land
with a band of unschooled ruffians, and a few old fisherman
No one knew just where he came from or exactly what he'd done
but they knew it must be something bad just to keep him on the run

Some say he was a sorcerer a man of mystery
He could walk appon the waters he could make the blind man see
He conjured wine at weddings did tricks with fish and bread
Spoke of being born again raised people from the dead

Some say a pollination that he spoke of being free
he was followed by the masses on the shores of Galilee
he spoke against corruption and he bowed to no degree
but they feared his strength and power so they nailed him to a tree

Some say he was the son of God a man above all men
That he came to be a servant to save us all from sin
Now that's who I believe he is because of what I've seen
If we follow his example some day we'll be like him



We were taught during these time to write our own praise music. Mom wrote a piece of music that is still one of my favorites, and i wrote my one and only ditty about Jesus and while I can't remember the words to the ditty I remember enjoying the process immensely.

Because of devotionals I will always praised God with all my heart.