Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ musings

The name Chris Klicka holds a dear place in the hearts of many home educators. He has stood and helped home educating families since 1985, as Senior Defense Attorney for Home School Legal Defense Association. Many of us have been touched to hear Chris speak, and changed by his books, HomeSchooling: The Right Choice, The Heart of Home Schooling, and Home School Heroes.

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Chris has battled MS for several years, and has seen much deterioration lately. After his unsuccessful hyperbaric oxygen treatment late this summer, I was surprised to hear he was feeling well enough to attend the HSLDA Leadership Conference in Colorado Springs this past week.

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But during the conference he had to be hospitalized. After several ups and downs -  while the saints prayed fervently, they were able to get him fairly stable, yet not back to a place that he would be able to return home.

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Chris and his wife Tracy had already discussed what should be, if it came to this. He had determined he did not want to continue an artificially induced life. Tonight they are preparing to transition Chris to hospice care at a friend’s home in the Springs, where Chris will apparently spend his last days here on earth. Short of a miracle of God (which we continue to pray for) Chris will soon be with his Savior, Jesus Christ and Almighty Father God. For Chris, “to live is Christ, to die is gain.”

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Please pray for the Klicka family – Chris, Tracy and their children, and relatives. I’ll close this post with the words of Pastor Tito Mercato, on Chris’ Caring Bridge site: “In all of this, we have grieved and have been buffeted by the hope of Christ and of his saving grace and resurrecting power.  We are grieving with hope even now.  Would you please join Tracy and family in giving thanks to God for his grace in Chris’ life and would you pray for them that they would have strength and peace to continue to walk through the necessary details of this decision.”

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May God be praised. To Him be all the glory. We thank and praise him for the life of Chris Klicka and what He has done through him, that has blessed our lives.

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At the same time Mike Farris, founder of HSLDA, was called home from the same conference, as his wife Vickie was/is having a flare up of what was recently diagnosed as interstitial cystitis. This disease has no known cause or cure. It is severely painful, but thankfully not life threatening. She is going through a bad episode right now and she is not really functional–she can’t homeschool, she can’t manage the house, etc. Just about anything she eats causes pain reactions. Pray for Vickie and the Farris family too.

To all my dear sweet readers,

It seems everywhere I turn home educating moms are crying out – or wishing they could without feeling looked down upon. They feel overwhelmed, discouraged, tired, worn out, stressed out, and out of sorts. They don’t want to quit. They love what they do. But they are currently under heavy fire, and in need of support.

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Physical support, in any way you can, would be greatly appreciated I’m sure. I don’t know any mom that would turn down a floor vacuumed, a load of laundry ran, or dishes done.

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Emotional support is necessary. They need a safe place to express what they’re going through. Someone who will care, and be a shoulder to lean on – or cry on.

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But most of all they need prayer support. They need lifted up to our heavenly Father. We need to ask for the enemy to be rebuked in this attack. We need to ask for His strength, for they know their own is spent. We need to ask for His Peace in the midst of their storm.

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Never before have I seen such a wide-spread attack on home educating moms from all over, at the beginning of the typical school-year. Purpose to pray for your home educating sisters in Christ, as they seek to follow their Lord in discipling their children for Him.

We serve a Risen Savior, who suffered and died for our sins, but rose
to life victorious over sin, death, and hell, that we who believe in
Him would also have eternal life.
Halleluia!

Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen:
Luke 24:5-6

May you all have a Blessed Resurrection Day!

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Time to put those convention tips I’ve been writing to use! Our state Home School Convention starts tomorrow.

Today I attended an excellent writing class with Andrew Pudewa of
Institute for Excellence in Writing. If you aren’t familiar with Mr. Pudewa or IEW, you’ve got to check them out. He is a fantastic teacher and speaker.

The class had a focus on writing for the SAT Essay. The way to write an SAT Essay, to get a good score, goes against most of what is done in real world writing, which made it hard for me to do. Good thing I don’t plan to take the SAT.

We didn’t just learn to write wrong though. Mr. Pudewa shared much on writing right also. DD said it was too much to take in in one day and then actually start applying. But we had a great full day learning, and she has much she can take home and gradually put into practice.

Click to check out writing resources from
Institute for Excellence in Writing.

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, here’s a link to a great powerpoint presentation, by Bill Burtness, giving a foundational understanding of Governments – and their link to Education and Character.

If you don’t have the Powerpoint application, you can download a Powerpoint Viewer for free – for Windows or Mac.

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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“Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:7

In these rapidly changing times, we must remember, “There is nothing new under the sun.” All man’s advancements still leave him in the same place.

As technology advances we have more opportunity than ever to reach more people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to use the medium to transmit, not new information, but never changing Truth!

God’s Word never changes, never needs added too, is always constant and always sufficient – in every age, at every time, in every place – for that universal need of everyone.

Take a look at this short video at Steve Camp’s blog.

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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Posts have been unusually long in coming here lately. Why? 2 answers:

• Blogging is happening at my ‘from me’ blog. As we expand our health and nutrition studies, my mind is on food, so blogs are making it over there. 2 series are currently going. Friday Food has been resurrected – where I give you a Good for You-Naturally! recipe each week. And, Today’s Menu – where I post a Real Life Good for You-Naturally! Menu Plan from our home.
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• In addition to all the other things overfilling my plate, we are preparing to attend a Reformation Faire for our vacation this month.

We’ve been trying to push through to a good resting place in our studies. We just finished the book of John – and are now finishing our Journals, are moving slowly in HisStory in 20th century – finishing WWI, are exapanding our health and nutrition studies – along with food preparation, working on the character quality of Availability – learning about the UNavailable cowbird.

We thought we would have proper attire for the Faire for all but our 2 oldest boys, but found we need to make outfits for our 2 girls also. AND I’m still not sure I’m wanting to wear my Reformation period wedding dress to an outdoor event – so perhaps new attire for me is in order too. AND we are down to 2 weeks before we go. Gotta get those machines a humming.

So –until next time…

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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Had to add another resource I found today, an Independence Day picture with quotes. It’s from Hobby Lobby, and you can download a free pdf of it and print it out.

Please read my other, full post, today too.