My Stewardship ring

Yesterday I was having a long, but spontaneous talk with Cora about education. She was wondering why education was necessary if all she wanted to be was a mother, or a cook if that didn't pan out. I had to smile a little when she said that. I answered by pulling out my home schooling Master plan and vision-- so excited that someone was actually interested in the "why" of education. We talked a little about having a personal mission from God. I testified to her that I believed that God had sent me to this earth to perform certain things for others and my family, and that I need to prepare for that future. I also need to prepare for the things ahead- in the next life, and to be a celestial person. I know that we progress eternally and eventually will know and understand all things, therefore we should start now and seek to understand the things that God would have us learn.

So then we moved on to the "how" of education. I believe that I personally have been given some insight into how to educate my children through a simple illustration. At a time when I was seeking to know the "hows" of education, I started to think of education in terms of a stewardship. I felt impressed to understand what those stewardships were, and to break them down into certain categories. I came up with seven. They are: FAITH, BROTHERHOOD, BEAUTY, BODY, EARTH, LIBERTY and SCIENCE. At the same time I was figuring these divisions out, I was also studying a little about Celtic knots, and found there was a figure that was a continual and overlapping ring of loops that had seven loops in it, and it had no beginning and no end. I chose this figure to represent our stewardship education, with each loop taking on a different category of stewardship, yet all of them intertwined on a single endless rope. It represents the eternal perspective of education as well as the wholeness and interconnectedness of it.

Each stewardship is broken down into the different pieces that give us education. For example under LIBERTY we learn about history, government and the the things that make us free- such as being able to read, write and use proper grammar. Then I have certain books to read and programs to use at different ages under each category. It is really well thought out and planned. I am really good at the thought and planning, but not so good at the follow through. Therein lies my weakness- yet in the Lord lies my strength.

I still believe that this life is a journey, with lots of bumps and twists and turns. We will get through it and get educated with faith and God on our side.