I am so thankful to know, love and serve such a wonderful, glorious God!! He is so involved in our lives it amazes me. I see this a lot in our homeschooling. He leads and guides us in our studies and lets us know He is on our team or I guess we are on His team.

We had changed curriculum this past September away from what we have been doing for years to something a bit new. Just last week it became obvious to me that we needed to go back. I realized it one afternoon as I was talking to a friend who was using our old curriculum. I told my husband that evening I thought we needed to go back and then prayed about it that night. Now we have everything we need to go back. It's not a matter of money but of knowing the plan. If we would go back I would need to know soon. We were finishing one area of study and moving on to another this Monday. I would have to buy more books if I were to stay with the newer curriculum.
I woke the next morning and attended a brunch pot luck. At the woman's home I entered the kitchen and there on her fridge was a verse about JOY. (Joyfulness would be the unit study we would study if going back to KONOS our original curriculum we used for years) At one point this friend and several others were trying to remember the lyrics to a song and everyone kept getting stuck at the same point..."Fill me with your.....what? Love, Word? One of the ladies suddenly throws her hands up and yells JOY! The word was joy. Ok God had my attention but He usually confirms things to me in 3s. I guess two could be a coincidence but 3 is a God-incidence.
Fast forward to Saturday. I am at my Father's house in Oceanside and am looking for a magazine to read. There were only 3-two Rachel Ray and one more....what does it say?...Oh it has the word JOY!!!! written across the top. I think it was a Good Housekeeping or something of that sort and it was a Christmas special. So there it was, just in time, for you know that God is never late.
I looked over the Joyfulness unit that we will start tomorrow and am very excited. We will be focusing on JOY for the next four weeks. It fits in perfectly with our schedule as just as we are finishing that unit, we will be going on a 6 day fishing trip.

Here is a short devotional from The Women's Devotional Bible 2. This devotion is written by Mother Teresa of Calcutta

JOY
"Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. One gives most who gives with joy. The best way to show our gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen. This I tell my sisters. This I tell to you."