Hope for the blessings to come and Praise for the blessing that have already!

^{Psalms 139:16} Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
         And in Your book they all were written, 
         The days fashioned for me, 
         When as yet there were none of them. 


What of the greatest blessings in light of that verse is when you can look back on the day that was planned for you and very clearly see the hand of God in it!  Yesterday was an awesome day with the kids for school.  We tried a new tactic and did all of our subjects together.  I think it was good for Kait to hear and glean whatever she could from Johnny's classes as well as for Johnny to get the review in Kaits.  It also helped stretch our day out and give us lots of time for discussion and learning and drills etc.  It was great!  We had discussed at the beginning of our school day the meaning of bringing glory to God in our school work and in Math we talked about how our school work can teach us cool things about God (God is a God of order and He never changes) which brings glory to him that way. One of the coolest things that happened came in Science class (which we did last).  Kait was learning that on the 4th day of creation God created the sun moon and stars.   She has about a million stuffed animals.  and she is always getting new ones.  It doesn't matter how many she has or how long she has them she always remembers what she named each one. My devotional from yesterday at Quietimediary.com talked about God deciding how many stars to make and naming each one of them.I was able to share those verses with them and use Kait's stuffed animal situation and a weak example :) It was cool to see her and Johnny's faces when it dawned on them that God's power and love was so great that He not only made the stars, but the reason he knows how many there are is because he DECIDED how many there should be and named every single one of them.  If I hadn't have started my day with devotions, and then approached every subject we did from the perspective of bring Glory to God, and kait hadn't learned about the 4th day of creation, and we hadn't saved science for last, I wouldn't have been able to share what I learned, through it all the glory of God was made real in an awesome way to my kids. Looking back i can see God's hand of order and how he cares enough to make himself real to us!