Yesterday, Chris Klicka, homeschooling dad and attorney for the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, lost his fifteen year battle with MS, but is now in Heaven with his beloved Jesus.
Seven years ago the Lord started to impress upon Matt's heart and then mine that we should begin homeschooling. We attended our first homeschool conference. Chris Klicka was the keynote speaker. The words Chris spoke at that conference touched our hearts, but his actions are what really made a deep impression on me.
Chris struggled to walk, even with the assistance of a cane, to the podium in order to speak to the conference attendees. He struggled to stand and deliver his message. I saw him struggling all weekend, but never once did I see a look of discouragement on his face.
Chris Klicka was instrumental in giving me the confidence to take the plunge, follow God's leading and begin homeschooling. I thought to myself, "If that man can overcome so many obstacles in order to homeschool, than surely I can homeschool, too."
Homeschooling is not easy. Chris Klicka didn't say that it would be, but he did say it would be worth it. Now in our seventh year of homeschooling, I can attest that homeschooling is worth it. The Lord has allowed us to see some of the fruit He is producing through our homeschooling and I have confidence that He will continue to show us more fruit in His good time.
"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Heb. 12:1
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