What Is My True Mission Field?

I write a lot about homeschooling on this blog.  A few years ago I changed the name of my blog from what it was (not important) to Home Mission Field after a missionary came to my church.  He talked about how not everyone will go to a foreign land for mission work, but that we all live in a mission field.  If we just looked at the people in our lives, the ones we see day to day, as our mission field, we could change the world for Christ.  Each life we touch for Jesus will then go out and do the same.

After some prayer, I realized the missionary was correct.  I would love the adventure of foreign missions, and have friends that are moving their entire young family with five children to Zambia to be full-time missionaries.  

But... That isn't what God has called my family to do. God called me to homeschool my children, and for seven years I have obediently followed what He asked. I have kept my journey online, blogging about curriculum choices and field trips and projects.  I've included some posts about my faith.  I written about some of the struggles we faced, including our time of unemployment and discovering our home was making us sick from mold.  

But lately I noticed my desire to write has not been as focused as it once was.  I began to ask God why, and I realized that I strayed from my original purpose.  Yes, blogging about our journey in homeschooling has helped me see just how far I have come, the lessons learned along the way, and the adventures we have had.  I'm sure God is not finished with them or us.

But... My home mission field is about much more than homeschooling.  I love homeschooling, and have no plans to stop posting about our learning adventures.  I have just found that, after a few years, we have settled into a groove of what works for us, and writing about it all endlessly isn't as intriguing for me as it was when everything was new. (At least not intriguing enough to write about daily.)

When I first began blogging, I did it all on my desktop.  Now, I still use my desktop, but I find I write a lot of posts from my smartphone.  I find that I have enjoyed the brief posts I have done about cash living or creating my heritage wall or my faith.

I find that I have other things God wants me to write about, and they all concern where God has me focused... On my Mission Field right here at home.  I long to write about marriage, since my marriage is a big ministry.  I want to write about homemaking, because so many feel that making a home is not something from God.  I want to write about education, not of just my children, but continued learning as a mom and an adult that can't afford to go back to college.

I sat down and began brainstorming ideas for what I could write, and the ideas kept coming.  Even as I'm in the middle of a series on homeschooling lessons I have learned through the last seven years, I am thinking about a series on marriage.  

Be prepared for changes coming to My Home Mission Field.  I think God is gonna do something with this little 'ole blog after all.  And if I never have a bunch of readers or do more than blog about what I feel God wants me to blog about, I will still have fulfilled His purpose.