Has Homeschooling Taken Over Your Life

There are many reasons my husband and I decided to homeschool our oldest daughter.  In a later post I will list the whys.  However, recently I felt a tug in my spirit or rather a warning.  In life we hold so many titles.  During college it was "I am a college student, then I am an engineer, next came I am a wife, a mother, stay-at-home mom, now it is I am a homeschooler."  However, I have to be careful not to let any of those things give me my identity.  My identity alone must be in Christ.  It is so easy to let those roles overtake you.  I was spending hours and hours on homeschool blogs and websites.  It was really becoming sort of obsessive.  I even found myself wanting to get online for a quick peak before doing morning devotions.  I was starting to find my identity in being a "homeschooler."  However, God in his graciousness pulled me back to him and actually challenged me for a while to stop looking at the blogs altogether.  I went on sort of a blog fast because it was really becoming unbalanced.  I love homeschooling my daughter.  Now that I am doing it I would not have it any other way but I can't let it define me.  If God calls me to do something else in the future I can't have all of myself wrapped up in this that I don't know who I am if it goes away.  It's really not about me anyway.  On many levels it's not about my children either.  It's about being obedient to what God has for us so that his kingdom will be advanced on this earth.  It's really just simply about him.