Stand Up!

We often talk about the importance of standing up for what we believe in, even if that means that people will get upset or that other people think differently. To not be the fish that just float around but to take a stand and stand up for what we really believe in. I have tried to show this in my life to the boys.

Recently we have spoken about our reason to leave the country we all were born in and move to a place where everything was new. The reason for the move was to homeschool which I knew that God told us to do. And with the homeschooling it would be possible to do what God called us to do, to be missionaries.

I know that when we did this, many people thought that we did a wrong thing. That we went against God, that we went against the system, that our children would never manage in life and so on. It has felt like this is a pioneering journey and that we walked on a path that were completely new for the people in Sweden. I knew other families that had moved but I found them through research, so our family, friends and extended family in Sweden didn’t understand. This was a hard thing to do, and I know that it has been many many tears through nights and days throughout the process.

We didn’t have anyone to talk to. We didn’t have anyone close that could tell us and show us how to do it. I needed to search it all up and stand up for the decision that we had taken. Learn about homeschooling, what curriculum, and books to use and make that path possible as a family, with the help of God.

When we decided that we needed to move we were sad to leave it all behind and we went on untrodden ground. Now, I know that we can help other people do the same journey, to take the steps. I can tell them the hard things, I can tell them about the tears and the struggles, but also the beauty in being the first one to take the step: to make the move and the excitement to step out from the Swedish system.

As I look at our boys now, I know we did the right decision.

I wish I could go back in time and tell the past me that it was going to be worth it. It is always worth to follow the Lord.

Let me tell you now mothers and fathers: It is worth it. Your children grow so quickly and before you know it childhood will be over. You will not regret that you did the move for their sake. It’s not worth the years in school that they are struggling and all the tears you will have to dry and all the things they need to fight through.

It is worth you take a decision to stand up, to stand up for your children and your family!