More About Your Spiritual Health
Now that we have established that good spiritual health comes from celebrating your faith life and making time for prayer, let's take a look at some other ways that help you to stay strong
in this area.
Worthwhile Reading
Homeschooling mothers usually put a lot of effort into choosing worthwhile books for their students to read. They will pour through catalogs, inquire among friends, research reading lists, and keep updated on new authors and publishings.
To stay healthy spiritually, it is important for you to provide yourself with good books to read as well! Make time to read things that uplift, strengthen, support, encourage, and enlighten your spirit!
You need not have time to get through a book cover-to-cover in one or two sittings. It is fine to read a paragraph here and a page there as time allows. One of my favorite ways to read is when I'm up with a newborn baby in the night! Baby gets all snuggled into my shoulder and we walk to and fro around the kitchen...I can easily hold a small book or place it nearby on a counter top and take in a chapter or two undisturbed by other
interruptions!
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FELLOWSHIP
True friends are a gift of the Lord! When striving to strengthen your spirit, having a few true and close friends can be an invaluable help to you! Ask the Lord to bless you with other women who will support and encourage you in your vocation. (It also helps to distance yourself from any relationship you might now have that DOESN'T support or encourage you in your vocation.)
Whether you are pen-pals, or gather occasionally for a Mom's Night, talk on the phone once in a while, or chat online, the point is to engage in conversation, prayer, and activities with other women who are walking the same journey as you.
It nurtures the spirit to have someone who will lift you up when you are down, admonish you when needed, and praise the Lord with you in all things.
Life as a homeschooling mother can have periods of loneliness attached to it. These times are more easily withstood if you
have a shoulder to lean on or a friendly ear in which to confide.
Embrace Your State in Life!
Another key to keeping yourself in good spiritual health is to embrace your state-in-life and try to live it out joyfully each day.
The weakness of comparing yourself to others is a common culprit that attacks many homeschooling moms! She does it better, they have it easier, her kids are so obedient, their books are top of the line, her husband is so involved, etc...
This does nothing to build a strong spirit in your vocation and everything to break it down!
Your loving Father in Heaven has allowed you to be exactly where you are right now in your journey. Embrace it! Look for the joy that surrounds you and accept where you are and who you are wholeheartedly.
St. Francis De Sales said "Do not seek to be anything by what you are, and try to be that perfectly".
We honor God when we offer Him our joy and contentment in our daily homeschooling lives. If we answer each call to duty with love and commitment and a willingness to persevere and try our best, then we show our Father in Heaven our gratitude and we open ourselves to the many graces He wishes to send to help us.
It is healthy for our spirits when we embrace our states-in-life
and live them wholeheartedly with the JOY that comes from Christ.
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