True story: A mom walked into the pediatricians office with her un-vaccinated baby. The nurse asks, “How many children do you have?” The mom tells her five, and that the oldest is just seven years old. The nurse then asks, “And do you homeschool too?”
Why yes, yes I do!
I also live in the country, I garden, and I can my own food. I eat grass-fed, free-range beef and chicken, and drink raw milk. I can hang drywall and stack wood, and I know which plants to chew up and spit on a bee sting. I breastfeed my babies and wish I could have DOZENS of kids! The only reason I don’t own goats is because my husband said,”NO!!!” (Just like that, too.) And I try really hard to obey my husband. Because I believe God wants me too.
What? Oh, yes. Yes I AM a Christian! What does that mean? I love Jesus, believe He’s God’s Son, believe He was born and walked this earth fully human and fully God, that He died on a cross so I wouldn’t have to pay my own death penalty for sin, that He rose from the dead, that He LOVES me, that His grace is limitless and free, that His grace ALONE saves me, that He intercedes for me at the throne of God, that when I die I will live forever with Him in heaven, a place where there is no more sorrow…
And while I’m on a rant… No, I don’t believe in “global warming,” per say. I believe creation is groaning, waiting for Jesus to come back and destroy this sin-full world. To reign over His new heaven and earth!
And WOW is that radical!
I guess being stereotyped isn’t always bad, if I could just remember to bring up Jesus.
P.S. I still don’t bake my own bread. And I buy Fruit Loops. See? I fit in nobody’s box!