Wow we are a lot alike and I needed this! I’ve been thinking a lot about how fast my kids are growing up! I have four. My son is 11 my daughter is almost 9 and my two twin girls are 5. I’ve been wanting to surrender alot of my to do list and definitely make time for the Lord more but also just talking and spending time with my kids too. Thanks again! ❤️🙏🏼
Thank you for this, @The Eclectic Homeschooler. I find myself wrestling these same thoughts way too often! It's time to do the thing. It's funny how joy and true connection, conversation without agenda and the like, seems to make homeschooling feel less than what it is at times.. I'm in on this journey and will be giving my days over (once again lol) to The Lord, Our Lord whom has called my family to this rich life. 🙏
I felt like my 2022 was a different kind of challenge. I know things need to change, but most of the change needs to happen internally, with myself, because I am the only person I can change. I need to become the change I wish to see in the world. Thank you for your inspiring message and the grace with which you shared it.
My pastor says when you are letting Jesus lead, it feels like sailing. The more you try to push him out and take the lead for yourself, the more it will feel like rowing. ❤
"The mom who has it all together"....girl!👏 She does NOT exist!!!!! What does that even mean or look like?! You said it perfectly...that is a lie from the enemy Himself. You are doing a great job, mama. You are. Thank you for opening up and sharing this! What a blessing this video is! Love you, friend! ❤️ Big hugs!
Oh my gosh so true! The perfect human being does not exist and daily we are bombarded with comparisons, criticism from others or from within ourselves, judgment, and untruths. May the light of honesty, kindness, and especially forgiveness and love shine through to more people everyday.
"Our worth is not found in how clean our house is, how our kids attitudes are, how great our homeschool is going, ect." I relate to your video very mucb and are prone to overwelm.
I’ve been watching RUclips for many years… I don’t think I’ve ever “liked” a video… until now. What an amazing message, exactly what I needed to hear. God bless you. He knew there were so many mothers that needed to hear that from a fellow mother. Praise the Almighty God!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Erin, we have just started our very first homeschool and i don't see any perfection but we're having the best time and that is we get to be more closer to Christ. So, you keep going on in the Lord coz He is perfect. Love you lots.
Thank you!!! This is what we need this year too. Our word for next school year, our theme, SURRENDER. I too relate to Martha, but I so desperately want to be a Mary.
Agree! More intentional time with my kiddos. I want them to remember me smiling all the time, gentle and loving, not frustrated because it's not happening like I want. A balance of Marth and Mary, because both are needed. I am limitting all the "measuring" this year and trying to just enjoy the learning. Thank you for your sharing and encouragement. ❤
I had a super strong willed child…prayed over that child every single night and every single start of the day (with child)…God lead me to the “right curriculum “, the “right” way to teach, to let go and play a game mid day,etc…relationship is a key word for us. We love your channel and the raw,realness you bring.
Thank you for sharing! I came away feeling refreshed. Someday it feels like I'm the only one that can't get it together. You are my favorite homeschool youtubber.
Oh, Erin! I cried through this entire video. Some of it was ugly tears. 😭😭 This spoke to me so much. God is so GOOD. I also identify with Martha, but it's funny, because I'm not constantly struggling and striving to be perfect, I'm just trying to keep my head above water! I beat myself up about the time that I haven't spent with my kids so much. Just yesterday I felt more called to sit and read picture books with them, even the older kids. My oldest always complains that he is too old for that but he usually ends up sitting with his siblings when he hears the story across the room. 🤣💗 And it also is moving my heart so much to hear other homeschool mamas turning towards Jesus the way we are feeling called to as a family. I have a sign over my kitchen sink that says "Be Still". I have it there as a reminder to be still with Jesus and my family more. It's been there a while now, but I'm attempting to actually follow it's instructions now. Thank you for your vulnerability, as always. You are a treasure to us homeschool mamas!! 😘💗
🥹🥰 I’m so glad to hear that! God is so good! 🙌🏼 That letting go and trusting is so hard sometimes! Definitely a work in progress over here! Blessings to you, mama! ❤️
You are a breath of fresh air! Your calm demeanor calmed my momma heart. Thank you for your wisdom, your heart and your guidance. Your children are lucky.
Awe bless you! Trust the Lord, he will lead you and show you what you really need! Less is usually more and just listen… He IS speaking and knows what your family needs! Amen!
I was very blessed by this video. I truly understand what you are saying, and I too am a Martha. I want to be at His feet, surrendering it all. I will pray for you
I am Martha too. As a single mom, running a preschool/daycare and homeschooling, I do have to do it all. Lol. It is hard to not be a Martha but I have taken a little more time to rest this year. It is hard for sure. Thank you for your transparency and encouragement.
This video really spoke to me. I feel like this is exactly the message I've been getting too from the Lord-- to just rest in Him. His "yoke is easy" and His "burden is light" when we come to Him and let Him walk alongside us, sharing all that we have and are with Him. It is so hard to always remember to trust Him that He will make everything fair and right, but it is so true that He does that for us always. Thank you so much for this sincere and powerful reminder.
This is really beautiful. I appreciate your vulnerability. I have been hearing the Lord encourage me on a similar journey. I often find what He's saying to families, He's saying to the Body of Christ, His church. Your voice is needed, thank you.
Totally agree! I feel like that is so true! 🙌🏼 I don’t know how many times I’ve been feeling like he’s teaching me something and then hear others share the same! ❤️
Thank you for your vulnerability and honesty, and pointing everything back to Jesus! Your videos have truly helped me as I start my journey as a homeschool mom. I pray that things have improved. You are doing amazing work ❤ His strength is made perfect in our weaknesses! Keep it going, momma!
Great focus! Mrs Marilyn from @CharacterConcepts has great videos encouraging homeschool mamas - taking us to Jesus first and then other advices. She is a homeschool mama of 14 children and has seen a lot….including the death of one of her sons and how they were able to take a year off from school and focus, as a family, on the relationship with him. I always learn so much from her.
Your best video yet! Yes, I need to join you in this & will! Praise God who instructs our hearts always, who never leaves us to our own strength, and who generously, abundantly gives - to us and our children, our hearts outside our hearts.
I really appreciate your vulnerability. I needed this encouragement. It has been a stressful year for our family too and I have almost given up on homeschool.
It’s such a challenge when we in the midst of it, but I always have to remind myself that it’s only for a season. Things will get better if we keep our focus in the right place. 👆🏼 Hang in there, it’s worth it! ❤️
THIS. It's exactly what the Lord has been working out in me. I have watched homeschooling video bloggers for years and just came across yours today just seeking answers for next year, wanting to send my kids to school even out of frustrations from this school year. But this. Oh so good. I appreciate you stepping out and sharing. Felt like you were looking right at me and encouraging me right where I am. Thank you!
YES! Surrender...trust and REST in Him! THAT'S the key to truly bringing Him glory, and more joy in our lives! Very, very true! Loved this so much! Blessings....♥️
Our homeschool has benefited from your knowledge and encouragement. I know all about the impossible standards we have in our heads. Our goal this year is slow and steady. I have watched videos that definitely stole my joy and I had to intentionally decide to let go and let God. I am a Martha slowly giving myself permission to choose the better part.
I. Needed. This. You have no idea. May The Lord richly bless and keep you and your family. Thank you for sharing and blessing me today with these words ❤️
Amen!!! You are not alone. I am the Martha at home, too. This year started like a horse kicking me in the gut! OMG! The struggles. But everything you said is true. I need to stop comparing myself to others, worry about what others think and focus on my God. He has gotten me through tough situations and I know the enemy is out to get us, God's servants. I'm there with you. Thank you for sharing this. I'm sure it wasn't easy to be vulnerable like this.
Thank you so much for this reminder. We always need to be going back to the feet of Jesus. I’m similar to you in many ways an f after a hard year as well, I needed to hear this. 🙂
Oh, man. This video along with your most recent one really hit me in my heart. They were the encouragement I desperately needed. Our 2022 was rough, and I'm forcing myself to take a break this summer due to major burnout. (Like, "can't get out bed" kind of burnout.) What a great reminder that we aren't alone in this. 🙏🏻❤️
I just found your channel today and my goodness, this was exactly what I needed to see and hear! You are such a beautiful soul! Thank you for sharing what is on your heart and pointing us back to Christ!
Erin I just watched this video 3 days after you posted it, and just ….wow! Your words (every one of them) in this video ministered to my weary regretful soul. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you for being obedient to that which God placed on your heart and prompted you to share! I will be watching this one a few more times. I will join you in this, this year! May God continue to bless you, my sister in Christ💖
Wow, your video really hit home for me. Thank you so much for being so real and authentic for all of us viewers. I truly needed this video today and love all your videos. You are such a Blessing to me! Praying for you and your family!
Thanks for sharing! This is so encouraging. I am homeschooling 3 kids and for the past week my mother in law has been living with us because my father in law is in the hospital and she needs a caregiver. This is temporary but feels overwhelming at times. We have many prayers going up on our families behalf and because of that I feel joy each morning when I wake up.
Erin, thank you so much for opening your heart. I know it probably wasn't easy, and I also know it helped to heal so many hearts, who cried with you, just like it did feeling relieved, understood, and not that lonely anymore. Thank you very much for your video and for sharing your heart with us. ❤
🥰😭 I’m so very blessed to hear that! Always my hope to bless and encourage others! We can often tend to feel alone in our struggles, but it’s so not true! God sees and is always with us. Blessings to you! ❤️
Yes. You spoke my heart and my intentions this year also. We can only work and strive so long.....before we just have to lay it down and give it all to God. Love this and your heart. We are in this together. 💓
I cant stop crying listening your words. You dont imaging how your video bless me . This week have been very overwhelmed emotional and 2022 . I will like to have the control of every thing but I can't. I want to enjoy this style of life with me kids with out pression. The first we do is seek God pray together and read the Bible. Because with out him we are nothing. He have been my support when I feel give up I remember to stop all my stress and talk to my self . What is most important ? The learning moment or how my kids feels inside how they need their mom to be. This week i have been trying to start this new year beginning and it have been very difficult ... My kids crying talking about how they feel and I did a BIG STOP and hug them and pray for them and us. Then i start thinking why this happens... And the Lord just put in my heart because you are doing things differents and you want that they learn about Jesus first. And thats why some days you will feel like a emotional battle and stress . I send you a Big hug and i will join with you to seek God more and rest in him more and enjoy our kids more and connect with them more. I will ask them today does questions that you mentions. Your videos and yours advice have been a special part of my homeschool I have been bless. We are from Puerto Rico. God bless You and your family I want a family full of Joy and learn to surrender.❤
Oh yes, yes, yes, I will join you!!! I have really also started focusing less on my To Do List and more on my husband and kids. Less focus on perfection and more focus on intentions!!
Amen. Girl - you are preaching to the choir here - but Preach! I needed to hear this. I'm truely a Martha. It's hard to let go and let God. I know that's kind of a corny phrase but I secretly have a hard time with letting the Lord take the lead. Everything you said in this post pierced my heart - in a great way! Thank you for posting. I'll be praying for your journey.
I needed to hear this today . Our God is so amazing that He can use someone on a different continent to be His voice to answer us when we call out! Your message touched my heart on so many levels, thank you for obeying God's call and sharing this message. 🇸🇨❤️ G
I could have written the same. The last few years have been VERY rough. So much of our lives have gotten out of balance. My husband and I were having a very similar conversation. I will join you.
I completely understand where you are coming from. I was there and going so far down that rabbit hole of control and frustration and anxiety I ended up on anxiety medication. I don’t like taking any meds but I was so desperate and in such bad shape I didn’t feel like I had an option. Then I started talking to a Christian counselor and some of my lies about myself, people, and God started coming to light. Now I am being able to relax into that surrender, using his strength not mine to get through my days. I was able to come off the meds and I can sleep at night now. Praise the Father for his love for his children! My word for the year is FOCUS. I want to work this year on lifting my eyes to the hills from where my help comes from. Thank you for this video! Sounds like we will be working on the same things this year.
After all of us being sick the entire month of September and it hitting again this week, I saw a post that someone is on their 100th day of school already 😮we are on 68 😩 I try to remind myself it’s our schedule not anyone else’s for a reason and my daughter is learning enough and we’ll finish eventually. Sigh everything is so hard
Yes! Your schedule and yours alone! Some years are just harder than others for sure! Way to focus on your daughter’s forward progression. That’s what really matters! ☺️
I love this! A verse I have been coming back to is “but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31 ESV ❤
This totally resonates with me…and woah! When you spoke about Mary and Martha…that’s so spot on! Trying to listen to Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World bible study from right now media. The book has been an anchor for me. But man 2023 is starting out tough…financial, physical and mental struggles are always there so trying to strengthen my spiritual health 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 it’s so hard at times…but thank you for sharing your own struggles…so good it’s not just me…❤
thank you. I had tears in my eyes pretty much the entire video. We are planting a church and recently moved way out of state....many states away from home...and so it's been hard. Lately I have been overwhelmed with anxiety about homeschooling...this is our 3 rd year. I love homeschooling, but we had many homeschooling friends back home and we are starting over again. Anyway, I can relate to many things you were saying and I wanted to say thank you for being vulnerable.
I’m so sorry to hear that you’re struggling, that sounds like a hard season! I know it’s so much work to plant a church and being away from your support base must make that every more so. So thankful that where God has called us, he is faithful to provide. And when we are faithful to him, he gives us even more than we can ask or imagine. Hang in there, friends and other homeschooling families will come. Until then, He himself is with you! “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9
God always uses the season you are in, to minister to me in the season I am in. I'll never forget the first video I ever watched of yours that encouraged me to keep going and not give up homeschooling. Then 2022 was one of the hardest years for my family and we faced some of the most difficult challenges we ever have. I am a Martha, with a desire to be like Mary and sit at the feet of Jesus and slow down to love my children and family...to rest and trust. This is definitely a word in due season. Thank you for being obedient and sharing this. It blessed and encouraged my heart so much.
I'm sorry you've had a hard year, Erin, I've been there before, so I can definitely relate. I'm looking forward to see how 2023 goes, I love this mindset!
Hi, I really appreciated this video and you sharing what is on your heart. I relate to a lot of what you said, especially regarding feeling like you always have to be busy doing something and not liking to feel out of control of situations. Me too!! Also, the temptation to feel burdened by children asking us to do something with them when we're in the middle of other things. I am with you in laying some of those things down and prioritising the important moments with our children and with the Lord x
Thank you for making this video it made me cry so much, it’s so encouraging to hear someone express so clearly how I feel and then be so encouraging to, thank you truly for making this ❤ God bless you
Thank you for this. This is my exact struggle in this season of life. I'm going to link this video in the description of my other video: Morning routine for the struggling mom.
❤ 2022 is going down in the books with 2020 as one of our family’s least favorite years … but God!! In 2022 I have learned about manna in my own life. Like God provided daily bread for the Israelites…only enough for that day, nothing would last until morning (except the Sabbath)…God granted me enough to get through each day. With 2 new babies, homeschooling, multiple big stressors like: storms knocking down dozens of trees, house/car repairs seemed unending, husband and kids in the ER…I went to bed soooo many nights in tears thinking there was no way I would have enough in me to get through another day. And I didn’t! Not in my own strength. But God!! He gave me enough for one day at a time. And occasionally I even got a little extra rest like collecting manna for 2 days 😉 God always uses our weakness for our good and his glory. To teach us, mature us, and encourage us in how he takes care of us ❤ if we had it all together, we wouldn’t need him! Be encouraged ❤ ~ from another recovering control freak
I am right there with you, sweet sister! The toil and stress of life have worn me down this past year. So much sickness and feeling like I’m not doing enough in our homeschool day…it’s exhausting! Let Jesus by our answer and focus, every single day! Lord, give us hearts like Mary ❤
How was your 2022? Are you making any changes or have new goals for 2023?
Wow we are a lot alike and I needed this! I’ve been thinking a lot about how fast my kids are growing up! I have four. My son is 11 my daughter is almost 9 and my two twin girls are 5. I’ve been wanting to surrender alot of my to do list and definitely make time for the Lord more but also just talking and spending time with my kids too. Thanks again! ❤️🙏🏼
Thank you for this, @The Eclectic Homeschooler. I find myself wrestling these same thoughts way too often!
It's time to do the thing. It's funny how joy and true connection, conversation without agenda and the like, seems to make homeschooling feel less than what it is at times.. I'm in on this journey and will be giving my days over (once again lol) to The Lord, Our Lord whom has called my family to this rich life.
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I felt like my 2022 was a different kind of challenge. I know things need to change, but most of the change needs to happen internally, with myself, because I am the only person I can change. I need to become the change I wish to see in the world. Thank you for your inspiring message and the grace with which you shared it.
My pastor says when you are letting Jesus lead, it feels like sailing. The more you try to push him out and take the lead for yourself, the more it will feel like rowing. ❤
Yes! Great analogy!
"The mom who has it all together"....girl!👏 She does NOT exist!!!!! What does that even mean or look like?! You said it perfectly...that is a lie from the enemy Himself. You are doing a great job, mama. You are. Thank you for opening up and sharing this! What a blessing this video is! Love you, friend! ❤️ Big hugs!
Love you too, girl! ❤️ Thanks for always being so encouraging!
Oh my gosh so true! The perfect human being does not exist and daily we are bombarded with comparisons, criticism from others or from within ourselves, judgment, and untruths. May the light of honesty, kindness, and especially forgiveness and love shine through to more people everyday.
"Our worth is not found in how clean our house is, how our kids attitudes are, how great our homeschool is going, ect."
I relate to your video very mucb and are prone to overwelm.
Thank you for verbalizing what a lot of us are thinking. ❤️ I've learned a lot from you. Our homeschool has benefited from you. Thanks!
Aww, thank you! God is good!
Our 'school' has benefited as well.
She puts it into words so gentle and yet uplifting and connecting! It’s heartbeat we all can feel through the screen.
I’ve been watching RUclips for many years… I don’t think I’ve ever “liked” a video… until now. What an amazing message, exactly what I needed to hear. God bless you. He knew there were so many mothers that needed to hear that from a fellow mother. Praise the Almighty God!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wow, thank you! I’m honored that you liked the video! 🥰❤️ God is so good! Thank you for commenting!
Erin, we have just started our very first homeschool and i don't see any perfection but we're having the best time and that is we get to be more closer to Christ. So, you keep going on in the Lord coz He is perfect. Love you lots.
Momma, I hear ya! We will rise... together!
Thank you!!! This is what we need this year too. Our word for next school year, our theme, SURRENDER. I too relate to Martha, but I so desperately want to be a Mary.
Agree! More intentional time with my kiddos. I want them to remember me smiling all the time, gentle and loving, not frustrated because it's not happening like I want. A balance of Marth and Mary, because both are needed. I am limitting all the "measuring" this year and trying to just enjoy the learning. Thank you for your sharing and encouragement. ❤
Totally agree, both are needed but it’s a struggle to find that balance! Blessings to you! ❤️
I had a super strong willed child…prayed over that child every single night and every single start of the day (with child)…God lead me to the “right curriculum “, the “right” way to teach, to let go and play a game mid day,etc…relationship is a key word for us. We love your channel and the raw,realness you bring.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience and wisdom! ❤️
I could so relate to this.
Gods kingdom is an upside down kingdom so it could be you are absolutely right about it all.
Thank you for sharing! I came away feeling refreshed. Someday it feels like I'm the only one that can't get it together. You are my favorite homeschool youtubber.
Aww, thanks so much! 🥰
Oh, Erin! I cried through this entire video. Some of it was ugly tears. 😭😭 This spoke to me so much. God is so GOOD. I also identify with Martha, but it's funny, because I'm not constantly struggling and striving to be perfect, I'm just trying to keep my head above water! I beat myself up about the time that I haven't spent with my kids so much. Just yesterday I felt more called to sit and read picture books with them, even the older kids. My oldest always complains that he is too old for that but he usually ends up sitting with his siblings when he hears the story across the room. 🤣💗
And it also is moving my heart so much to hear other homeschool mamas turning towards Jesus the way we are feeling called to as a family.
I have a sign over my kitchen sink that says "Be Still". I have it there as a reminder to be still with Jesus and my family more. It's been there a while now, but I'm attempting to actually follow it's instructions now. Thank you for your vulnerability, as always. You are a treasure to us homeschool mamas!! 😘💗
🥹🥰 I’m so glad to hear that! God is so good! 🙌🏼 That letting go and trusting is so hard sometimes! Definitely a work in progress over here! Blessings to you, mama! ❤️
Amen 🙏
You are a breath of fresh air! Your calm demeanor calmed my momma heart. Thank you for your wisdom, your heart and your guidance. Your children are lucky.
Wow, thank you! 🥰 Blessings to you!
Amen!! 💕
Thank you for sharing these reflections, Erin. I can relate, and I agree with you. We really need more of Jesus, to find our rest in Him. ❤🙏
Awe bless you! Trust the Lord, he will lead you and show you what you really need! Less is usually more and just listen… He IS speaking and knows what your family needs! Amen!
Your voice is so soothing. It reminds me of Delilah from the radio.
My thoughts exactly 😊
Definitely felt this! 🙌🏾
learning to surrender is one of biggest lessons , i continue to practice.
I was very blessed by this video. I truly understand what you are saying, and I too am a Martha. I want to be at His feet, surrendering it all. I will pray for you
I am Martha too. As a single mom, running a preschool/daycare and homeschooling, I do have to do it all. Lol. It is hard to not be a Martha but I have taken a little more time to rest this year. It is hard for sure. Thank you for your transparency and encouragement.
This video really spoke to me. I feel like this is exactly the message I've been getting too from the Lord-- to just rest in Him. His "yoke is easy" and His "burden is light" when we come to Him and let Him walk alongside us, sharing all that we have and are with Him. It is so hard to always remember to trust Him that He will make everything fair and right, but it is so true that He does that for us always. Thank you so much for this sincere and powerful reminder.
Yes! That’s so true! Thanks for sharing! ❤️
Amen, sister!! Amen. I’m with you!!
Oh my goodness, I needed this video. Thank you, x
Thank you for sharing! I definitely want to surrender my all to Jesus. Life has been hectic and I'm learning to let go and let God.
This is really beautiful. I appreciate your vulnerability. I have been hearing the Lord encourage me on a similar journey. I often find what He's saying to families, He's saying to the Body of Christ, His church. Your voice is needed, thank you.
Totally agree! I feel like that is so true! 🙌🏼 I don’t know how many times I’ve been feeling like he’s teaching me something and then hear others share the same! ❤️
Thank you for your vulnerability and honesty, and pointing everything back to Jesus! Your videos have truly helped me as I start my journey as a homeschool mom. I pray that things have improved. You are doing amazing work ❤ His strength is made perfect in our weaknesses! Keep it going, momma!
Crying. Thank you for sharing your heart. I’m with you, your prayer is also mine. God bless you Mama!
Blessings to you as well!
God bless you and your family. I know things can get crazy and out of control but don’t let them overwhelm you. God has your back.
Great focus! Mrs Marilyn from @CharacterConcepts has great videos encouraging homeschool mamas - taking us to Jesus first and then other advices. She is a homeschool mama of 14 children and has seen a lot….including the death of one of her sons and how they were able to take a year off from school and focus, as a family, on the relationship with him. I always learn so much from her.
Your best video yet! Yes, I need to join you in this & will! Praise God who instructs our hearts always, who never leaves us to our own strength, and who generously, abundantly gives - to us and our children, our hearts outside our hearts.
I love the Mary/Martha story so much!
I really appreciate your vulnerability. I needed this encouragement. It has been a stressful year for our family too and I have almost given up on homeschool.
It’s such a challenge when we in the midst of it, but I always have to remind myself that it’s only for a season. Things will get better if we keep our focus in the right place. 👆🏼 Hang in there, it’s worth it! ❤️
Same... This year has been our hardest. May you be strengthened and given peace and wisdom to do what best serves you and your family. ❤
Sending you lots of love and positive vibes. Stay strong and stay true to yourself. ❤
I’m ready to join you in this, Erin! -Heather
Loved this! So many of us strive for that perfection and miss those moments ❤️ You are not alone!
THIS. It's exactly what the Lord has been working out in me. I have watched homeschooling video bloggers for years and just came across yours today just seeking answers for next year, wanting to send my kids to school even out of frustrations from this school year. But this. Oh so good. I appreciate you stepping out and sharing. Felt like you were looking right at me and encouraging me right where I am. Thank you!
🥹 Aww! I’m so glad yo hear that! God is good! 🙌🏼
Joy!!!!
WhT if we just had fun!!!
Listened
Laughed
Took the kids lead
Shared what we love
YES! Surrender...trust and REST in Him! THAT'S the key to truly bringing Him glory, and more joy in our lives! Very, very true! Loved this so much! Blessings....♥️
Absolutely!! ❤️🙌🏼
Thank you. Just thank you. Xx
So true I am so tired of trying to be perfect I am going to keep my homeschool simple 3 x a week. I am a Martha too!
Our homeschool has benefited from your knowledge and encouragement.
I know all about the impossible standards we have in our heads. Our goal this year is slow and steady. I have watched videos that definitely stole my joy and I had to intentionally decide to let go and let God. I am a Martha slowly giving myself permission to choose the better part.
Thank you! Your comments are always so encouraging to me! 🥰 Bless you!
God bless you ❤️
Be filled with the one thing needful. Christ.
Thank you for sharing your ❤️ Definitely repeatable. Pursuing Jesus, 2023!!!
I have always appreciated you. Since your first video I found. I love your genetleness and non-judgement.
Yes! Amen. Thank you.
Wow! So encouraging Erin! Prayer keeps coming up for me lately. GOD must be bringing it to mind. Thanks for your vulnerability in sharing.
I. Needed. This. You have no idea. May The Lord richly bless and keep you and your family. Thank you for sharing and blessing me today with these words ❤️
God is so good! 🙌🏼
@@TheEclecticHomeschooler Amen!!
Amen!!! You are not alone. I am the Martha at home, too. This year started like a horse kicking me in the gut! OMG! The struggles. But everything you said is true. I need to stop comparing myself to others, worry about what others think and focus on my God. He has gotten me through tough situations and I know the enemy is out to get us, God's servants. I'm there with you. Thank you for sharing this. I'm sure it wasn't easy to be vulnerable like this.
You are right on, it’s definitely a spiritual battlefield! But we’re on the side that wins! 🙌🏼
Thank you so much for this reminder. We always need to be going back to the feet of Jesus. I’m similar to you in many ways an f after a hard year as well, I needed to hear this. 🙂
Oh, man. This video along with your most recent one really hit me in my heart. They were the encouragement I desperately needed. Our 2022 was rough, and I'm forcing myself to take a break this summer due to major burnout. (Like, "can't get out bed" kind of burnout.) What a great reminder that we aren't alone in this. 🙏🏻❤️
I just found your channel today and my goodness, this was exactly what I needed to see and hear! You are such a beautiful soul! Thank you for sharing what is on your heart and pointing us back to Christ!
My pleasure!! ❤️ Thanks for watching and for the kind words of encouragement!
Erin I just watched this video 3 days after you posted it, and just ….wow! Your words (every one of them) in this video ministered to my weary regretful soul. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you for being obedient to that which God placed on your heart and prompted you to share! I will be watching this one a few more times. I will join you in this, this year! May God continue to bless you, my sister in Christ💖
Oh my word! Thank you for such an encouraging comment!! I’m so glad the Lord encouraged you through my words! Blessings to you! ❤️
Amen!!! Only one thing is needed ❤❤ I needed to hear this too
Thank you, Erin! Appreciate YOU!
Yes! Thank you for this!! So much encouragement ❣
Yes! What if less is actually more? I feel this. I watch your channel not so I can copy you....but so I can be inspired by you. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!! 🥰
I needed this!! I will probably replay this video frequently as a reminder. Thank you so much for sharing!❤
Wow, your video really hit home for me. Thank you so much for being so real and authentic for all of us viewers. I truly needed this video today and love all your videos. You are such a Blessing to me! Praying for you and your family!
I'm so glad! Thank you for your prayers!
I am so thankful you shared this message with us! So much of what you said really resonated with me. Thank you!
Amen! Totally needed to hear that. ❤️
Thanks for sharing! This is so encouraging. I am homeschooling 3 kids and for the past week my mother in law has been living with us because my father in law is in the hospital and she needs a caregiver. This is temporary but feels overwhelming at times. We have many prayers going up on our families behalf and because of that I feel joy each morning when I wake up.
Praise Him for his goodness! 🙌🏼❤️
Erin, thank you so much for opening your heart. I know it probably wasn't easy, and I also know it helped to heal so many hearts, who cried with you, just like it did feeling relieved, understood, and not that lonely anymore. Thank you very much for your video and for sharing your heart with us. ❤
🥰😭 I’m so very blessed to hear that! Always my hope to bless and encourage others! We can often tend to feel alone in our struggles, but it’s so not true! God sees and is always with us. Blessings to you! ❤️
Thank you for sharing and for encouraging us all ❤️
Yes. You spoke my heart and my intentions this year also. We can only work and strive so long.....before we just have to lay it down and give it all to God. Love this and your heart. We are in this together. 💓
I cant stop crying listening your words. You dont imaging how your video bless me . This week have been very overwhelmed emotional and 2022 . I will like to have the control of every thing but I can't. I want to enjoy this style of life with me kids with out pression. The first we do is seek God pray together and read the Bible. Because with out him we are nothing. He have been my support when I feel give up I remember to stop all my stress and talk to my self . What is most important ? The learning moment or how my kids feels inside how they need their mom to be. This week i have been trying to start this new year beginning and it have been very difficult ... My kids crying talking about how they feel and I did a BIG STOP and hug them and pray for them and us. Then i start thinking why this happens... And the Lord just put in my heart because you are doing things differents and you want that they learn about Jesus first. And thats why some days you will feel like a emotional battle and stress . I send you a Big hug and i will join with you to seek God more and rest in him more and enjoy our kids more and connect with them more. I will ask them today does questions that you mentions. Your videos and yours advice have been a special part of my homeschool I have been bless. We are from Puerto Rico.
God bless You and your family
I want a family full of Joy and learn to surrender.❤
❤️❤️ Thank you so much for sharing! God bless you and your family!
Oh yes, yes, yes, I will join you!!! I have really also started focusing less on my To Do List and more on my husband and kids. Less focus on perfection and more focus on intentions!!
Love that! Great plan!! ❤️
Amen. Girl - you are preaching to the choir here - but Preach! I needed to hear this. I'm truely a Martha. It's hard to let go and let God. I know that's kind of a corny phrase but I secretly have a hard time with letting the Lord take the lead. Everything you said in this post pierced my heart - in a great way! Thank you for posting. I'll be praying for your journey.
Love this!! Thanks for sharing! ❤️
I needed to hear this today . Our God is so amazing that He can use someone on a different continent to be His voice to answer us when we call out!
Your message touched my heart on so many levels, thank you for obeying God's call and sharing this message.
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Love that so much! God is so good! ❤️🙌🏼
thank you for such vulnerability, your channel inspires me to be a kinder to myself, thank you so very much for your candor
I could have written the same. The last few years have been VERY rough. So much of our lives have gotten out of balance. My husband and I were having a very similar conversation. I will join you.
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I completely understand where you are coming from. I was there and going so far down that rabbit hole of control and frustration and anxiety I ended up on anxiety medication. I don’t like taking any meds but I was so desperate and in such bad shape I didn’t feel like I had an option. Then I started talking to a Christian counselor and some of my lies about myself, people, and God started coming to light. Now I am being able to relax into that surrender, using his strength not mine to get through my days. I was able to come off the meds and I can sleep at night now. Praise the Father for his love for his children! My word for the year is FOCUS. I want to work this year on lifting my eyes to the hills from where my help comes from. Thank you for this video! Sounds like we will be working on the same things this year.
Praise God! What a great testimony of his power and strength in your life! Thank you for sharing!! ❤️🙌🏼
Thank you so much for this video. I was listening while doing some deep cleaning and it was exactly what I needed to hear.
The first 2.5 minutes....me! Such an encouragement....pointing us back to resting and trusting in Christ. Thank you!!
You are so welcome! ❤️
After all of us being sick the entire month of September and it hitting again this week, I saw a post that someone is on their 100th day of school already 😮we are on 68 😩 I try to remind myself it’s our schedule not anyone else’s for a reason and my daughter is learning enough and we’ll finish eventually. Sigh everything is so hard
Ask me what day we are on….??? No, don’t ask me because I have no clue!! Never thought to count!!!! Momma you are doing awesome on YOUR journey!
We’re on day 63, 🥴 x
Yes! Your schedule and yours alone! Some years are just harder than others for sure! Way to focus on your daughter’s forward progression. That’s what really matters! ☺️
Thank you for being open and honest. I definitely needed to hear everything that you said.
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I love this! A verse I have been coming back to is “but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
Isaiah 40:31 ESV
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Love that verse!
This totally resonates with me…and woah! When you spoke about Mary and Martha…that’s so spot on! Trying to listen to Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World bible study from right now media. The book has been an anchor for me. But man 2023 is starting out tough…financial, physical and mental struggles are always there so trying to strengthen my spiritual health 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 it’s so hard at times…but thank you for sharing your own struggles…so good it’s not just me…❤
I read that book in my early 20’s! Such a great read. I should find that and read it again! Thanks for the reminder! 😄
thank you. I had tears in my eyes pretty much the entire video. We are planting a church and recently moved way out of state....many states away from home...and so it's been hard. Lately I have been overwhelmed with anxiety about homeschooling...this is our 3 rd year. I love homeschooling, but we had many homeschooling friends back home and we are starting over again. Anyway, I can relate to many things you were saying and I wanted to say thank you for being vulnerable.
I’m so sorry to hear that you’re struggling, that sounds like a hard season! I know it’s so much work to plant a church and being away from your support base must make that every more so. So thankful that where God has called us, he is faithful to provide. And when we are faithful to him, he gives us even more than we can ask or imagine. Hang in there, friends and other homeschooling families will come. Until then, He himself is with you! “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9
God always uses the season you are in, to minister to me in the season I am in. I'll never forget the first video I ever watched of yours that encouraged me to keep going and not give up homeschooling. Then 2022 was one of the hardest years for my family and we faced some of the most difficult challenges we ever have. I am a Martha, with a desire to be like Mary and sit at the feet of Jesus and slow down to love my children and family...to rest and trust. This is definitely a word in due season. Thank you for being obedient and sharing this. It blessed and encouraged my heart so much.
🥹🥰 Aww, I’m so glad to hear that! God is so good! 🙌🏼
I'm sorry you've had a hard year, Erin, I've been there before, so I can definitely relate. I'm looking forward to see how 2023 goes, I love this mindset!
Thanks, friend! ❤️
Hi, I really appreciated this video and you sharing what is on your heart. I relate to a lot of what you said, especially regarding feeling like you always have to be busy doing something and not liking to feel out of control of situations. Me too!! Also, the temptation to feel burdened by children asking us to do something with them when we're in the middle of other things. I am with you in laying some of those things down and prioritising the important moments with our children and with the Lord x
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Thank you for making this video it made me cry so much, it’s so encouraging to hear someone express so clearly how I feel and then be so encouraging to, thank you truly for making this ❤ God bless you
Gos is so good! 🙌🏼 Blessings to you! ❤️
This is the most beautiful message I have come across in a long time. Your advice hit home. Love and prayers for you and all those around you.
Thank you so much! Blessings to you! ❤️
God bless you and your family. Thank you for making this video and sharing your heart. I pray your year is fulfilled in the Lord.
Thank you so much! Same to you!
Thank you for this. This is my exact struggle in this season of life. I'm going to link this video in the description of my other video: Morning routine for the struggling mom.
Oh how I needed this talk. I can relate to you so well.
I sooo hear you, Erin! You are not alone! This is very familiar, and I have had so many of those what ifs! Thank you for being vulnerable.
🥰 I think we all struggle with some of these thoughts from time to time! Bless you! ❤️
I'm in!!!
What an absolutely AWESOME video…Thank You.
❤ 2022 is going down in the books with 2020 as one of our family’s least favorite years … but God!!
In 2022 I have learned about manna in my own life. Like God provided daily bread for the Israelites…only enough for that day, nothing would last until morning (except the Sabbath)…God granted me enough to get through each day. With 2 new babies, homeschooling, multiple big stressors like: storms knocking down dozens of trees, house/car repairs seemed unending, husband and kids in the ER…I went to bed soooo many nights in tears thinking there was no way I would have enough in me to get through another day. And I didn’t! Not in my own strength. But God!! He gave me enough for one day at a time. And occasionally I even got a little extra rest like collecting manna for 2 days 😉 God always uses our weakness for our good and his glory. To teach us, mature us, and encourage us in how he takes care of us ❤ if we had it all together, we wouldn’t need him! Be encouraged ❤
~ from another recovering control freak
Totally relate to all of this!! God is so good and faithful to give us just what we need for each day! ❤️🙌🏼
This is so me too!! Resting is a skill I'm so thankful that my husband has taught me a little bit of. Thank you for being willing to share.
Why is it so hard to rest?! 😆
I needed to hear this! Thanks so much for sharing this message! ❤
My pleasure! Blessings!
This made me cry 😢 exactly how I've been feeling the last year
God bless you, mama! ❤️ He is faithful!
Thank you so much for this! 🥰
I am right there with you, sweet sister! The toil and stress of life have worn me down this past year. So much sickness and feeling like I’m not doing enough in our homeschool day…it’s exhausting! Let Jesus by our answer and focus, every single day! Lord, give us hearts like Mary ❤
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your demeanor is beautiful and full of wisdom. I can just tell :) keep your chin up
Aww, thank you! 🥰