As some of you know we homeschool our little ones. We feel this is the right choice for our family and hold the ability to do so as a great blessing and a need for us. However in our home province the homeschool laws are taking some drastic changes, not for the better. We have always been aware of this and knew that if it got to bad we would have to move. In January of 2017 this happened. One of the laws passed we did not like and has made it even more difficult to educate our children.
We saw it as a constant decline and felt God tell us it was time.
Then as Abraham we were called to another province. One where we know no body, one that is 9 hours from all family. Leaving everything and everyone we know behind, taking our family of 6 and going. Not only are we moving a family of 6 to a new land but we are doing it in winter.
In just a few short weeks from the time we said yes we will move, we had a house and my husband had a job. Six weeks from the time we said yes we leave to come to this new place.
Our move has not come without struggles, we have struggled to get to know some new people. We don't have a support system here, we can't call on family to just come and help out if we need it. We have had to lean on each other a lot more, we have had to find new ways of doing things. There are days where I long for that support system we had back home, where on a nice day the kids could go out and easily play with friends or visit family. Days when my 4 year old cries because she misses her friends and her old home, I wish I could take her back. However we know this is where we are called to be. I often wondered if Abrham had days where he wanted to just go back. Now I am sure he probably did.
The area I now live in is beautiful. It has many of the things I have always wanted. It has space for my children to play, we have a few chickens and a garden. We can easily go to the beach and there is lots of farms and things to see. It has wonderful homeschooling laws and a large homeschool community. We know that God has called us to this place, it is clearly seen in the road to get here and even now that we are here. Sometimes the road God has called us on though is not easy. There are days I want to say, maybe the laws back home are not so bad afterall, and compromise. To go back, to return to the land we came from. I think a lot of us do this and compromise in what we know we are to do just because it is hard or lonley. Yet as Abrham we need to have faith that this is where God has called us and for a reason that will bring Him glory. So join us on this new adventure in a new land.
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