Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool

I started cooking on Tuesday for our Thursday feast. I’m hosting in Pennsylvania and will have guests from North Carolina and Georgia. As I’m standing at the stove, I’m working on giving thanks for the chance to serve and show love and praying for all the others standing at the stove stirring pots. So, maybe I prayed for you 🙂

I do pray for my EP family regularly. That’s all of you and your kids and your families. Whenever I’m bagging up our groceries at the store, I pray especially for any EP families struggling with the budget. I pray all sorts of things for you all. I pray for your kids for the schooling. I pray for relationships in the home. I pray for things like the fruit of the Spirit to grow in orchards in your homes 🙂 I pray for prodigals to return. I pray for the Lord to raise up laborers from our EP kids.

I am thankful you are part of our EP family. That is how I refer to you all, my EP family. I hope you are full of thanks. The sun rose each day this year. You are alive and reading this. Always find the place of thanks giving in each day.

 

Below is Psalm 145 written out as a prayer.

We exalt you, our God and King. We praise your name forever and ever. We praise you every day; we will praise you forever.

Great are you Lord! You are most worthy of praise! No one can measure Your greatness.

May we tell of your mighty acts and proclaim your power.

May we meditate on your majestic, glorious splendor and your wonderful miracles and awe-inspiring deeds.

May we proclaim your greatness and share the story of your wonderful goodness. May we sing with joy about your righteousness.

Lord you are merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. You are good to everyone. You shower compassion on all your creation.

May all of your works thank you, Lord, and your faithful followers praise you.

May we speak of the glory of your kingdom and be examples of your power.

May we share the good news of your mighty deeds and the majesty and glory of your reign.

For your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and you will rule throughout all generations.

Lord, you always keep your promises. You are gracious in all you do.

Lord, you help those who have fallen and those bent under a heavy load.

May we always look to you in hope. You will always supply what we need. You open your hand to us and satisfy our hunger and thirst.

Lord, you are righteous in all you do; you are filled with kindness.

You are close to all you call on you in truth and you grant the desires of those who fear you. You hear our cries and rescue us. You protect us who love you.

We will praise the Lord. May everyone on earth bless your holy name forever and ever.

I never got around to writing a life update in January of this year. Well, here we go. We’ve had a different kind of year. My husband and I will have been away from each other around 80 days this year. That’s extremely unusual. We’re together a lot, like all the time. The majority of that time apart was helping his dad after surgery. Being a few hours away and in the same time zone is very different than when he was on the other side of the world doing ministry, though. While he was in Maryland and I was in Pennsylvania, we had five phone dates daily and he could come home each weekend, and so we made the best of it. Our parents are in their eighties and needing more help these days.

My husband, Dave, affectionately known as Mr. G by our Easy Peasy family, has a gift of encouragement. While he is gifted in languages which he uses in Bible translation, and he is a teacher, which he uses for EP and also in creating teaching materials in the Bible translation language, one other way in which the Lord really uses him is in a ministry of encouragement. Mr. G has relationships with pastors and Christian leaders all over the world. He meets with them online, prays with them, and occasionally visits them. On his recent trip to India, they kept Mr. G busy. They had him speak in gatherings up to three times a day, baptized dozens of people, and prayed for who knows how many people individually. At first I was frustrated that they had him doing those things that Dave and I would both say are best done by the locals, but then I realized how encouraging it was to the whole church instead of just the two leaders he went to see. Some people walked long distances to meet Mr. G, hear him preach, have him pray for them. He was the first foreigner to visit some of these churches. It means a lot to them that someone knows they exist and cares about them and is praying for them.

My daughter has started her Master’s degree. She’s in fine art, a painter. The program is full scholarship. She also won a $50,000+ stipend from the school over the two-year program. It’s to cover living expenses, but the Lord provided a $200-a-month apartment with free food! So, she is saving up all she can. She’s already looking into PhD programs. She’s a great student. She loves all that reading!

My oldest son moved to Florida a year ago. He goes to the beach daily and has taken up roller blading. He loves the lifestyle. He has his own online company and is doing well. He’s found a church he really likes and some people he really likes. One of the Lord’s provisions for him was that he met someone from his Discord group for his business who lived in Florida. They got together when my son moved down there and it turns out this guy had lived in Turkey and Macedonia too, just like my son. What are the odds of finding someone his age with that shared life experience? They became fast friends.

My youngest is in fifth grade. There aren’t any little kids around the house any more. Dave and I enjoy daily dates when he’s home, though that includes grocery shopping and errands!

I have added new courses on the site, including math, though Bible courses have been a focus of late. I am continually writing devotionals for the Good Morning, Lord! series. I have been putting out short books of Christian teaching as well. I have recent books on the word of faith doctrine, sin, and faith. My latest, which is still in editing, is called Becoming Nothing That Christ May Be All. I added more miracle videos to the site as we experienced more miracles! I’ve done interviews. The most recent was with a student researcher doing a project on social entrepreneurship. I also recently talked with a volunteer looking to use EP in a ministry to help adults get their high school diploma. EP’s gone around the world. Now it looks like we’re going into prison!

EP is a gift to all of us. It’s a testament to the goodness of God.

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I have opened the link to the latest September Study. This year’s theme is Abiding. The study is 30 days going through John 14 and 15. I have gone through it with my family. I usually recommend middle school and up for independent learners and to do it together if you want to use it with younger students.

Abiding

September Studies

September Studies are month-long themed Bible studies. You can find the past ones at the link above. You can use them on My EP if you like. On the Settings page, you’ll find it in the Bible course block toward the very end of the list. You can get an addition Bible block from the Extras page if you need it. Parents, feel free to make yourself a student block and use any of our Bible studies or something like Hebrew.

Around the 4th of July is typically when we do any bigger changes on the site. In response to the trouble we had with one of our servers a few weeks ago, we are moving our store, placement test, and Brain Blast (vocabulary and spelling activities) to a new server. That will come with some temporary outages hopefully all just over the weekend and you’ll never notice! For some of you, it may take longer for cache things to clear out and let through the new info. If you are having trouble on Monday accessing those things, you could try resetting your router (turn it off and on).

This week there will be a couple of other changes. I’ll be deleting off the site a couple of our old courses that no one should be using. A couple of courses are moving from the main settings page to the “extras” page as they have been replaced and are being phased out. People using those courses have had a note on their course about that. You’ll be able to continue those if you are still using them, but no one should be starting with those courses. They will be labeled OLD.