Excellent discussion. We started and our kids were teens. We moved them from the city and it's been hard to get them engaged. They seem to think it's some sort of plot to keep them home 🙄🤦🏻♀️ Nothing could be further from the truth, we're trying to learn and pass on skills for survival and set them up with knowledge that makes them a valuable part of the community. I'm heartbroken we couldn't start sooner, they have no comprehension of how hard we've worked and how much we've sacrificed to give them a future full of opportunity. The struggle is real, and we won't give up.
Part of the journey is also deprogramming public education or socializing with friends who are educated in the public system. Tv, music, clubs, sports all influence… the programming didn’t happen all at once neither will be the deconstruction of those influences. And pray…God will give you the grace to do it His way. God bless you and your family.
For kids, change is very hard. They've had to grow up in a far less reasonable and fearful era than we adults have. When you stop to think how would we have felt in 2020 as pre-teens daily enduring all those shifts and unknowns? And watching parents work very hard for something they don't understand can add concern and stress; kids love their parents and want things to work well for them. It might help just to hear their concerns...just to let them honestly air things out and be understood and accepted as they are right now. That engenders trust and appreciation, and helped our kids a lot. The things we disagree on, we say it, and then accept the difference of opinion. They are young, and so we're we once. LOL! Speaking blessings upon them and recognizing the gifts, abilities and uniqueness of each kiddo blesses them in a way no one else can. Blessings!
I've been a lurker on this channel for several years. The content has always been wholesome and speaks to something inside me that knows this is who I was created to be. This episode, however, was a bullseye straight through my heart. This is somehow something I've intuitively always known (felt?) deep inside, but there were big holes preventing it from coming together into a cohesive, articulate, executable idea. I was so touched by this topic I nearly started crying! I was not raised in church, I was not raised to value my spouse, and my mother resented her children for holding her back from her dreams. I have been married more than once because I didn't know how to be in a relationship. Thankfully, I finally met Jesus for real nearly 10 years ago, which has provided a gradual but fundamental change that has revealed a lot to me. But, as Rory said, the church has lost its connection with the family. So, like much of the rest of the country, I've been floundering in the dark, feeling that I've been missing something, never really knowing quite what it was. Could this be what's been missing? I immediately bought both of Rory's books! I'm working my way through the blog posts now. At nearly 50 years old, I'm afraid I'm running out of time. But I'm intent on not giving up; I'm not dead yet! I've been homeschooling for several years and have two of five children still at home. My husband and I bought our homestead two years ago, a densely wooded and unimproved property. However, our progress has been extremely slow because I'm really the only one available to do the work. He's nearly always traveled to provide for our family, which means he's not available to help with the improvements. The children are eager to help, which I'm extremely grateful for. But as a family, we lack vision; we lack the togetherness that I've always craved. So thank you. Thank you for talking about this, and thank you for your courage and obedience to God. You have blessed me.
Thank you so much for being so bold and courageous to walk in the Spirit to speak the Word in Truth and call others into Life! May God bless you abundantly above all that you could imagine!
great video. our church started family faith formation instead of just religion class for k through 6th grade. families come together for a meal and then prayer time and then kids go to class while the parents learn what the kids are learning but more in depth. back together for prayer time and sent home with a packet of lessons for the next 3 weeks until we meet the next month. seems to work well
we have a small hobby farm but it's mainly for supplementing our food and preparing for bad times. I want to grow it into more, but might be mainly my wife and I as our kids are growing up and starting to move out. maybe we can get them to help as they start their own.lives and bring their future kids into this with gma and gpa!😊
I was thinking while you were speaking. How nice it would be to have a family and Christ in the north ( because I am in the south) to swap out items from our homestead that we cant grow. When he was listing all of his fruits I thought it would be so nice. Apples for mangoes peaches for papayas cherryies for avocados ect! Then like up North.They get different mushrooms and I can grow very well. We have some skills that maybe we could trade out for work hours. Sky is the limit.
My family is in the process of finding our farm land. But I definitely can see us all on the farm together working because I believe that we are going to have another lock down. If that wouldn't happen believe me we would not all be working on the farm at one time. Because we live in the tip of South Carolina. And the farm will be in Florida. But for now we utilize family outings in south carolina and a semi long ride to church to do this very activity. We definitely after the sermon.Explain our family theology that we believe in. Just because we are attending a certain denomination of a church at this time does not mean that we believe in all of their theology.
Excellent discussion. We started and our kids were teens. We moved them from the city and it's been hard to get them engaged. They seem to think it's some sort of plot to keep them home 🙄🤦🏻♀️ Nothing could be further from the truth, we're trying to learn and pass on skills for survival and set them up with knowledge that makes them a valuable part of the community. I'm heartbroken we couldn't start sooner, they have no comprehension of how hard we've worked and how much we've sacrificed to give them a future full of opportunity. The struggle is real, and we won't give up.
Part of the journey is also deprogramming public education or socializing with friends who are educated in the public system. Tv, music, clubs, sports all influence… the programming didn’t happen all at once neither will be the deconstruction of those influences. And pray…God will give you the grace to do it His way. God bless you and your family.
For kids, change is very hard. They've had to grow up in a far less reasonable and fearful era than we adults have. When you stop to think how would we have felt in 2020 as pre-teens daily enduring all those shifts and unknowns? And watching parents work very hard for something they don't understand can add concern and stress; kids love their parents and want things to work well for them. It might help just to hear their concerns...just to let them honestly air things out and be understood and accepted as they are right now. That engenders trust and appreciation, and helped our kids a lot. The things we disagree on, we say it, and then accept the difference of opinion. They are young, and so we're we once. LOL! Speaking blessings upon them and recognizing the gifts, abilities and uniqueness of each kiddo blesses them in a way no one else can. Blessings!
I've been a lurker on this channel for several years. The content has always been wholesome and speaks to something inside me that knows this is who I was created to be. This episode, however, was a bullseye straight through my heart. This is somehow something I've intuitively always known (felt?) deep inside, but there were big holes preventing it from coming together into a cohesive, articulate, executable idea. I was so touched by this topic I nearly started crying!
I was not raised in church, I was not raised to value my spouse, and my mother resented her children for holding her back from her dreams. I have been married more than once because I didn't know how to be in a relationship. Thankfully, I finally met Jesus for real nearly 10 years ago, which has provided a gradual but fundamental change that has revealed a lot to me. But, as Rory said, the church has lost its connection with the family. So, like much of the rest of the country, I've been floundering in the dark, feeling that I've been missing something, never really knowing quite what it was. Could this be what's been missing?
I immediately bought both of Rory's books! I'm working my way through the blog posts now. At nearly 50 years old, I'm afraid I'm running out of time. But I'm intent on not giving up; I'm not dead yet!
I've been homeschooling for several years and have two of five children still at home. My husband and I bought our homestead two years ago, a densely wooded and unimproved property. However, our progress has been extremely slow because I'm really the only one available to do the work. He's nearly always traveled to provide for our family, which means he's not available to help with the improvements. The children are eager to help, which I'm extremely grateful for. But as a family, we lack vision; we lack the togetherness that I've always craved.
So thank you. Thank you for talking about this, and thank you for your courage and obedience to God. You have blessed me.
We love the Groves'! This discussion was wonderful, and I'm grateful you had it publicly. :)
Thank you so much for being so bold and courageous to walk in the Spirit to speak the Word in Truth and call others into Life! May God bless you abundantly above all that you could imagine!
Amen! Excellent‼️ Thank you for this much needed conversation!
Great chat! Thank you for having Rory on today. Looking forward to checking out his newsletter etc.
Great idea and I noticed I enjoy more family gatherings for games, celebration etc in church and or Christian homes.
great video. our church started family faith formation instead of just religion class for k through 6th grade. families come together for a meal and then prayer time and then kids go to class while the parents learn what the kids are learning but more in depth. back together for prayer time and sent home with a packet of lessons for the next 3 weeks until we meet the next month. seems to work well
Thank you! Great discussion and very relevant to the family of today!
First realized this desire reading The Oxcart Man to our kids. Great book to demonstrate the values.
Soo good!!!!
This is a great conversation, thank you! 🌿
This is so good!! Things God has been showing me for a decade!!
Just finished "Durable Trades" this afternoon....excellent, eye-opening book!
we have a small hobby farm but it's mainly for supplementing our food and preparing for bad times. I want to grow it into more, but might be mainly my wife and I as our kids are growing up and starting to move out. maybe we can get them to help as they start their own.lives and bring their future kids into this with gma and gpa!😊
Amen. Deuteronomy 6. If we are not spending time with our family how can we possibly pass anything on!
Got a funny for you. You guest picture I was convinced he was the younger you!! Shock to find out no relation. lol
His books are great.
Thanks to Normotim, I feel emotionally protected.
🎤 drop is all I have to say! 👏
I think this why our society is set up to destroy the family...the strength is unbeatable.
I was thinking while you were speaking. How nice it would be to have a family and Christ in the north ( because I am in the south) to swap out items from our homestead that we cant grow. When he was listing all of his fruits I thought it would be so nice. Apples for mangoes peaches for papayas cherryies for avocados ect! Then like up North.They get different mushrooms and I can grow very well. We have some skills that maybe we could trade out for work hours. Sky is the limit.
My family is in the process of finding our farm land. But I definitely can see us all on the farm together working because I believe that we are going to have another lock down. If that wouldn't happen believe me we would not all be working on the farm at one time. Because we live in the tip of South Carolina. And the farm will be in Florida.
But for now we utilize family outings in south carolina and a semi long ride to church to do this very activity. We definitely after the sermon.Explain our family theology that we believe in. Just because we are attending a certain denomination of a church at this time does not mean that we believe in all of their theology.
end times...going to the golden age