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Joy In the Journey: Encouragement for Homeschooling Moms
In Joy in the Journey, veteran home educator Lori Hatcher speaks candidly about the unique challenges homeschooling mothers face. With humor and faith, she shares lessons from her own homeschooling journey and challenges you to press on.
With a devotion for every week of the school year, Lori tackles tough subjects such as discouragement, sibling relationships, busyness, priorities, and character training (yours and theirs). She'll teach you how to know the difference between good, better, and best, and how to seek God for everything you need to successfully homeschool your children.
Lori speaks frankly about the Six Reasons Homeschooling Moms Quit and how you can avoid them. Best of all, she offers hope and insight for those who are enjoying success and those who are struggling.
Interactive and engaging, each devotion is accompanied by application questions, an action step, and a prayer of commitment. Joy in the Journey is perfect for your personal quiet time or for use by a support group for discussion topics and meeting ideas.
Like a visit with a wise friend, Lori's words come alongside you to cheer you on through the joys and struggles of homeschooling motherhood.
With a devotion for every week of the school year, Lori tackles tough subjects such as discouragement, sibling relationships, busyness, priorities, and character training (yours and theirs). She'll teach you how to know the difference between good, better, and best, and how to seek God for everything you need to successfully homeschool your children.
Lori speaks frankly about the Six Reasons Homeschooling Moms Quit and how you can avoid them. Best of all, she offers hope and insight for those who are enjoying success and those who are struggling.
Interactive and engaging, each devotion is accompanied by application questions, an action step, and a prayer of commitment. Joy in the Journey is perfect for your personal quiet time or for use by a support group for discussion topics and meeting ideas.
Like a visit with a wise friend, Lori's words come alongside you to cheer you on through the joys and struggles of homeschooling motherhood.
125 pages, Paperback
First published June 21, 2012
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About the author
Lori Hatcher
18 books101 followersLori Hatcher is an award-winning author, blogger, and women’s ministry speaker who knows what it’s like to wear many hats. As a healthcare worker, author, editor of South Carolina’s Reach Out, Columbia magazine, pastor's wife, mother, and grandmother, she knows what it’s like to be hungry for God and starving for time. With the knowledge of a Bible teacher and the heart of a woman, Lori’s goal is to help today’s women find God in the busyness of life.
She and her husband live delightfully close to their four grandchildren in Lexington, South Carolina. Born in New England, Lori often says, “I wasn’t born in the South, but I got here as quickly as I could.” A happy transplant, she enjoys long walks, great books, and Trader Joe’s chocolate covered almonds.
She and her husband live delightfully close to their four grandchildren in Lexington, South Carolina. Born in New England, Lori often says, “I wasn’t born in the South, but I got here as quickly as I could.” A happy transplant, she enjoys long walks, great books, and Trader Joe’s chocolate covered almonds.
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July 3, 2012
Lori Hatcher knows where homeschooling parents live. After reading devotions in her book, Joy in the Journey ~ Encouragement for Homeschooling Moms, I’m convinced she’s spent a week in my home. The raw realities she shares indicate she came during one of my worst weeks:
the week I wished the yellow bus would pull up to my driveway and whisk away my frustrations,
the week I didn’t crack open my Bible,
the week before we were supposed to start school and I still hadn’t picked out any of our curriculum because I was too overwhelmed and exhausted.
How I wish I’d had Lori’s book then, to come alongside and encourage me. But Lori hadn’t published her book yet, because she was too busy living those weeks herself.
Lori’s a veteran homeschooler of two daughters. She’s faced the same homeschooling challenges and frustrations as her readers, and she knows that yellow bus won’t do us any good. The transparency in her writing tells me she knows what it feels like to be desperate for that escape, and she understands the guilt that accompanies that desire. She’s been there and found a way out. Now, she’s come to find us in our lowest places and guide us to the place of joy we all long for, that place where laughter and love effervesce from every corner of our homes.
Creatively, Lori shares insights that point her readers back to the heart of homeschooling. She knows that simply reading a good story isn’t enough, so she provides thought-provoking application questions to take us deeper. Then, being true to her homeschooling roots, she gives her readers an assignment: a practical action step that allows us to put feet to our faith. Just in case her readers are in one of those life seasons where there isn’t even time to shower (she’s been there, too!) and that devotion is the only piece of quiet time they can manage, she ends with a prayer.
With each devotion Lori’s readers feel a little weight lift. Day by day, she reminds us that we aren’t traveling this journey alone. God is the One writing the stories of our children’s lives, and He has given us the sheer privilege of discipling them. That privilege feels like a burden when we try to accomplish it in our own strength. As one who has walked in those cumbersome shoes, Lori gently refocuses her readers’ attention on Jesus, our Refuge and our Strength. Joy in the Journey will refresh your spirit and breathe new life into your homeschooling expedition.
the week I wished the yellow bus would pull up to my driveway and whisk away my frustrations,
the week I didn’t crack open my Bible,
the week before we were supposed to start school and I still hadn’t picked out any of our curriculum because I was too overwhelmed and exhausted.
How I wish I’d had Lori’s book then, to come alongside and encourage me. But Lori hadn’t published her book yet, because she was too busy living those weeks herself.
Lori’s a veteran homeschooler of two daughters. She’s faced the same homeschooling challenges and frustrations as her readers, and she knows that yellow bus won’t do us any good. The transparency in her writing tells me she knows what it feels like to be desperate for that escape, and she understands the guilt that accompanies that desire. She’s been there and found a way out. Now, she’s come to find us in our lowest places and guide us to the place of joy we all long for, that place where laughter and love effervesce from every corner of our homes.
Creatively, Lori shares insights that point her readers back to the heart of homeschooling. She knows that simply reading a good story isn’t enough, so she provides thought-provoking application questions to take us deeper. Then, being true to her homeschooling roots, she gives her readers an assignment: a practical action step that allows us to put feet to our faith. Just in case her readers are in one of those life seasons where there isn’t even time to shower (she’s been there, too!) and that devotion is the only piece of quiet time they can manage, she ends with a prayer.
With each devotion Lori’s readers feel a little weight lift. Day by day, she reminds us that we aren’t traveling this journey alone. God is the One writing the stories of our children’s lives, and He has given us the sheer privilege of discipling them. That privilege feels like a burden when we try to accomplish it in our own strength. As one who has walked in those cumbersome shoes, Lori gently refocuses her readers’ attention on Jesus, our Refuge and our Strength. Joy in the Journey will refresh your spirit and breathe new life into your homeschooling expedition.
December 3, 2014
I am in my second year of home schooling my teen daughter. This book was packed full of reassurance that I am on the correct path. Many of the suggestions made I had already discovered, but there were several that I need to take into consideration. Her Christian faith is center to her home school and I need to do this to mine.
August 24, 2014
This was a very quick read. Nothing new to me. I was expecting more stories or experience but it reads more like a homeschooling moms devotional. It was okay, but I am glad that I got this when it was free.
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