Embrace Your Spring Pause
Hey Reader,
Happy Wednesday, and happy spring break to those of you who are in it this week! If you are reading this from a couch in your pajamas with nowhere to be and nothing on the to-do list, I want you to know I am here for it!
However, if spring break feels like more of a concept than a reality in your house this year, that is okay too, because this email is for you either way. π©·
LIFE
God himself built rest into the very fabric of creation, and I don't think that was an accident or an afterthought. He created an entire universe in six days and then, on the seventh, He rested, not because He was tired or behind or had run out of things to do, but because rest is built into the rhythm of a life well lived and He wanted us to see that from the very beginning.
The year has been going long enough now that the fresh-start energy of January feels like a distant memory, and most of us have been running on fumes and good intentions for a few weeks too long. Spring break has arrived right at the moment when the exhale finally feels not only possible, but so so needed. I'm speaking to myself here: rest is not a reward you earn after you have done enough, because if that were the standard none of us would ever stop! God knew that when He wove the Sabbath into creation itself as a gift rather than an obligation.
So this week, whatever spring break looks like in your home, I want to invite you to actually receive it the way it was intended: don't just survive it while mentally planning next week's lessons, but be genuinely present in it. Let your kids be loud and let dinner be easy and let yourself sit outside in the warmth of spring and just breathe, because the books will be there in April and you are allowed, by both calendar and by divine design, to close them for a week.
HOMESCHOOL + MATH
Here is the one thing I want you to do this spring break: instead of planning more lessons, sit with this one question somewhere quiet.
When did my child really, truly get something this year? What did that moment look like?
Don't look at the test score or the finished chapter, but look for the moment the light came on behind their eyes and you knew they actually understood. Hold onto that picture, because starting next week we are going to spend the entire month of April looking at what mastery actually looks like in a real homeschool, how to recognize it, how to build it, and how to stop second-guessing whether it is happening. I cannot wait to dig into it with you!
GRACE
Isaiah 40:31 says: "But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint." (ESV)
Those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength. I love that the promise is renewal rather than maintenance, because renewal implies that something has been spent and needs to be replenished. Let's be real, most of us arrive at spring break with something real to replenish!
God rested on the seventh day and called it good, and He is extending that same invitation to you right now. Rest is not a reward you earn after you have done enough. It is an act of trust, and choosing to stop is itself a declaration that you believe the work will wait and that God will meet you on the other side of the pause with renewed strength, just as He promised.
Let this week be that rest for you. π
Enjoy every single minute of your break, and I will see you in April with something I think you are really going to love.
Hit reply and tell me the one thing you are most looking forward to doing absolutely nothing about this week β I read every single message. π
See you soon,
Mrs. Holman
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