For the past year our homeschool has gone simply by the name "Turner Family Homeschool" It was not for lack of wanting that we came up with no other name, but rather lack of finding a good, meaningful name that really fit--really summed up what we wanted our school and home to be about.
These past few weeks of our new school year I have done a lot of thinking about and praying about what God would have for us to learn this year and how our days should be ordered. As I have been pondering these things I have also been trying to sum up all these ideas into a "simple" name. While reading the scriptures I turned to Luke 5 and read this:
One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the
people crowding around him and listening to the work of God,
he saw at the water's edge two boats, left there by the fishermen,
who were washing their nets. He got into one of the
boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a
little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from
the boat. When he had finished speaking,he said to Simon,
"Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch."
Simon answered, "Master, we've worked hard all night and
haven't caught anything. But because you say so, I will let
down the nets." When they had done so, they caught such a large
number of fish that their nets began to break. So they signaled their
partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and
filled both boats so full that they began to sink. When Simon Peter
saw this, he fell at Jesus' knees and said "Go away from me Lord;
I am a sinful man!" For he and all his companions were astonished
at the catch of fish they had taken, and so were James and John,
the sons of Zebedee, Simon's partners. Then Jesus said to Simon,
"Don't be afraid; from now on you will catch men." So they
pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.
Aha!!!!! There was the name for us--the name that I so longed to have for our school!! Dustin and I want our school and our home to be a place where knowledge is actively sought after, desired and treasured. We want our children to be so full of love, our home to be full of knowledge, comfort, security and creativity. We want our children not only to seek after academic knowledge, but more importantly, a knowledge of their maker--who He is, what His plan is for them. I want our family to be willing to give up all of our doubts (not catching any fish so far) in order to obey and reap the blessings of Broken Nets. We now have a common goal, a reminder, a guidepost to aim for in our school--we want our home and our school to be marked with Broken Nets!
