Most of my previous posts were based on activities that my
children have been working on. I wasn’t
sharing much of my journey yet, and I am now feeling ready to do that here now.
The Lifestyle of Learning membership website is gearing up
to the public here in the next month or two providing everything moves along as
planned. I am currently one of about 10
(I think) couples who have been going through the Seven Seasons to LYFE pilot program and have grown
so much as a result. I have grown so
much closer to the Lord through all that I am learning and through the personal
discipleship I have been receiving from Barbie Poling which is allowing me to move our home life more
into a Lifestyle of Learning.
I was given the privilege to be interviewed by Marilyn Howshall yesterday via a live conference call and there will be a recording of
that interview along with several other mom interviews available to the
Lifestyle of Learning members. One of the many blessings of this interview was that it caused me to look over my full Lifestyle of Learning journey and how I had changed my thinking to some degree, but
missed the mark in so many areas because I did not know how to discern the
voice of the Holy Spirit speaking through my conscience. It was so good to think about and then write
out how the Lord had been pursuing me this whole time and had never left my
side or abandoned me, though I had not clung to Him and I had often abandoned Him. He is so amazingly good. The relationship I am beginning to share with
the Lord is so sweet and so real, and it is because of the teaching I have
received through the Lifestyle of Learning and Influential Parenting ministries. Through learning to know the Holy Spirit’s
voice and then the importance of responding with repentance (sorrow for how I hurt others, including
God and then changing) and obedience (apologizing and replacing my unloving
attitudes, intentions and motivation with loving attitudes, intentions and
motivations) my life has been changing in such sweet ways. I am ever so grateful for the Lord and the sacrificial
obedience of Marilyn Howshall and Barbie Poling in their ministry into my life
along with many others.
