Where Your Treasure Is, Homeschool Edition

What you prioritize in your homeschool reveals what you really value

What do you skip?

On your busiest day, when you just need to hit “the basics” so that there’s room for the prenatal appointment, the braces consultation, the Little House on the Prairie Crafts class you forgot you signed up for… what goes and what stays?

If it’s time in the Word together, then you’re telling on yourself.

Before you jump in and say that I’m being harsh, let me be perfectly clear: I’m not dictating what your priorities should be. I’m just repeating back to you what you have already said they are.

When time is compressed, we have to choose. We have to decide which boxes to check, so we triage. We find the things that satisfy our need to feel accomplished. And what always, always rises to the top are the things we find the most pressing.

If it’s not Scripture, then you’re literally saying out loud what your heart whispers in private: the Bible is an “add on,” and man-made subjects are more important.

It is convicting to be told this, and the flesh fights. It kicks against being forced to admit that we think math will serve our kids better than Jesus. It becomes indignant when the facade is peeled back and we admit that we’re more afraid of being called out by the powers that be for not satisfying the science requirements than of being called out by Christ for not preaching the Gospel to our kids.

Some of us say it doesn’t matter because we live out the Word, so our kids always have it in front of them. What does it matter, then, if we don’t spend the time digging in to the actual text? I extend that logic and ask why then we take time to dwell on noun/verb agreement with our emerging writers when we speak to them with proper grammar day in and day out.

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.—Matthew 6:20-21

In the time crunch, in the moments where your kids see you focusing on the things that matter the most to your family, choose wisely.

“We only have an hour for school, so we’re going to start with our Bible reading and fit in what else we can.”

You’re teaching them to place God first. You’re teaching them to see the Word as invaluable. You’re teaching them to follow Him. You’re teaching them to place every other thing in their life in subjection to their role as followers of Christ.

This matters, friends. It truly does.

In Christ,

Heather