The Moment God Spoke Through the Radio | Maggie | 037

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Now here I am, and I'm actually
speaking out loud to the radio

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at this point.
Yes, I said yes, I do.

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And so he says, if you believe
that this is the spoken word of

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God and then it's intended for
you, then you cannot not home

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school.
Welcome to When You Look, where

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ordinary people share their
extraordinary experiences and

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you get to decide, was it
coincidence or God?

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Maggie, thanks so much for being
on When You Look.

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Super great to have you here.
Yeah, it's great to be here.

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Thanks for allowing me to come
on and and share my story and

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glorify God.
Awesome.

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Well, we are super pumped to
hear that for those exact

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reasons.
But before we get to that, tell

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us a little bit about yourself.
Well, Nick, I am just Maggie.

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I'm Maggie.
I'm the wife of Greg and the

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mother of two kids and I've been
married since 91 and nothing

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special about me, just just
another person so.

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All right.
Well, Maggie, just Maggie, we

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think more highly of you than
that, but that is a OK.

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So we are delighted to have you
here.

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Thank you a bunch for getting
ready to Share your story with

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us.
So why don't you give us a

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little bit of the back story and
then walk us through things as

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they occurred for you?
OK, so after my children were

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born, I we decided that I would
stay home with my kids until

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they reach school age.
And so I was home several years

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and after a little while, I've
been occasionally and then more

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frequently exposed to people who
are homeschooling.

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And I thought, that's amazing.
Sometimes I thought that's crazy

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and that's amazing.
And these women are superstars.

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I don't know how they do that.
And I, I could never do that,

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but it, it got to be more and
more frequently and I started to

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feel like God was nudging me to
homeschool.

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And so I, I kind of ignored it a
little bit because I could never

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do that.
And then it got more intense.

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So I started to pray about it.
God, I think you're asked me to

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homeschool, but pretty sure that
wouldn't be the case because,

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you know, God that I could never
do that.

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And so my prayers kind of went
something like that and happened

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more and more frequently.
And I, I prayed and prayed about

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it like that.
I'm pretty sure you're not

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telling me to homeschool God,
even though it keeps coming up.

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And one day just, I, I was
feeling the call very strongly.

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So I was, you know, doing my
quiet time and I prayed and I

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prayed something along the line
to God.

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You know me, I'm stubborn if it
seems like you're trying to tell

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me to home school, but I don't
really think that's the case.

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But if it is God, you're going
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obvious.
And so after praying that close

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up my Bible, then turn on the
radio, getting ready for a

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program from Doctor Michael
Youssef that I like to listen to

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before he came on, there was a
one of those one minute Segway

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shows and Mike Farris was on and
and he was reading from

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Deuteronomy 6.
So, you know, I'm just settling

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around cleaning up the kitchen
some.

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But once he started reading from
Deuteronomy 6, it caught my

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attention because we had used
that verse when we dedicated my

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son into church when he was a
baby.

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So I said, oh, yeah, listen up.
And so he was saying, you know,

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love the Lord your God with all
your heart, with all your soul

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and with all your strength.
These are the commandments I

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give you today.
Impress them upon your children

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and talk about them when you
walk along the way and when you

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sit at home and when you lie
down and when you rise up and

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you're.
Yeah, that's the verse I

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remember that, you know.
And and he said, do you believe

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that every word from the Bible
is the spoken word of God?

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Now here I am, and I'm actually
speaking out loud to the radio

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at this point.
Yes, I said, yes, I do.

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And so he says, if you believe
that this is the spoken word of

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God and then it's intended for
you, then you cannot not

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homeschool.
And he said it just like that.

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You cannot not homeschool.
Wow.

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So, you know, at this point,
I've, I've asked for something

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obvious and that was kind of
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So I just kind of stopped and I
looked up and I went, oh, OK.

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And I, I said it like that, OK.
And you know, I prayed about it.

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Wow.
OK, God, I hear you.

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But you're going to quit me,
right?

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You know, And so out of
obedience, I decided this is

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what we needed to do and, and
talk to my husband and we agreed

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that, you know, God's telling
you this, you kind of have to do

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this now, especially after you
ask for that obvious word from

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God.
And and so we did and, you know,

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looked into it and started the
process and and 1st 6 months, I

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think I prayed every single day.
God, you called me for this.

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You got to equip me for this
because, you know, I'm just

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Maggie and I'm not like these
super women who homeschool, you

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know, so I did and it was a
challenge, but you know, we got,

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we got more and more into it and
the flow and it started to

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really, you know, be a great
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My kids were benefiting from it
so much so I could see, you

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know, I always thought it was
amazing.

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I never dismiss the value of it.
I just never thought that I

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could do it, you know, so, and
we, we did, we went along along

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the way and, you know, got Ryan
all the way into eighth grade

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and then, you know, I thought,
OK, what do we do now, Right,

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'cause you know, that'd be crazy
to home school and high school,

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right?
There's some reason to praying

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about it again.
I'm like, OK, go ahead.

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What exactly you want me to do
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You know, you call me at home
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I've been doing that, but you
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me to home school in high school
because that's crazy.

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And so I said, you know, like I
was giving God the options.

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I don't know, probably the
people who are listening to you

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don't give God options like I
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But I said, you know, here's
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I didn't say it like that, but I
said I could send them to public

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school or to private school or
to a prep school.

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What are you?
What are you thinking, God, you

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know, kind of like that.
And I prayed like that for

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probably six months.
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Just what what are you leading
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God?
I'm not really hearing what

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you're saying.
And finally, and I don't

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recommend praying like this, but
this is Maggie.

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And I said, what are you doing?
I'm you're not telling me what

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to do.
God, I, I've been asking you,

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please answer me.
And I was frustrated, you know,

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and God just quieted my spirit
and in words almost like you're

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talking to me right now.
He said I told you what to do,

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just like.
That wow.

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So that was humbling.
Yeah, that was humbling.

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And I took a press and we
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kids, so K to 12.
And I'm not that person, but God

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equipped me because he called me
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Yeah, wow.
Well, Maggie, let's come back to

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that spot that you were just
talking about where he says

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where God is saying to you, I
told you where did like what?

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What did you go right back to in
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Like, how did you, I can, I can
see there's a knowing, you know,

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like tell us more about that.
You know, when when you hear a

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direction from God, I mean, you
know, God always leads us to

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love one another and you know,
to obeys cans.

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You feel that you know it.
But when it's a very obvious

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direction from God, it it it
doesn't leave you.

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You know, you always can come
right back to that hearing the

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voice say you cannot not home
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So as soon as he said, I told
you what to do, I was in the

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kitchen listening to that radio
all again saying you cannot not

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home school.
And you know, he told him to and

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I don't, you know, other people
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something different.
Maybe other people have such

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great relationships with the
Lord that they can pray and be

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just at peace with everything
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And but like, I'm stubborn and I
it kind of takes a lot to, you

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know, hit me over the head with
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God, but you know, he meets you
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I was because I think when I
started praying about high

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school, probably that was a
little bit of, I don't know, I

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don't want to say rebellion, but
you know, a little bit of lack

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of trust or something in myself
and in him to equip me that I

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could do that.
But then, you know, He's been

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there all along, taking me
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So I shouldn't.
I should have just trusted and,

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you know, yeah.
So essentially the K through,

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we'll call it 8th when you're in
terms of the elapsed time, it

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was instantly after hearing
God's voice, I already told you,

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took you right back to how he
communicated it.

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That's really neat how you just
talked about when you've, when

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you've heard it and you know it,
you don't forget it.

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That's so neat.
That's so neat.

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Yeah, I mean, if you encounter
God like that, you know, and,

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and I admire the people who are
just so like, what's the word

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just so faithful from the minute
they're saved until the minute

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they die, they they never even
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But, you know, like not all of
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Well, so you know, I'm just
Maggie is what I'm saying.

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Like I I'm trying to do my best,
but sometimes I'm just Maggie

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and I need God to kind of hit me
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Yeah, well, I can relate to that
in so many ways of just, you

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know, needing him and and I
understand what you mean about

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that.
It, it does appear as if some

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people have that blessing of, of
faith and like they're just

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good.
It's like a one time filling and

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they're like filled forever, you
know, And I, I feel like I'm

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asking for fillings regularly,
you know?

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So what was the homeschooling
journey like for you?

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It's because you talked about
two kids.

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Tell us about that.
Well, it was not easy and I mean

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it's every bit of a full time
job and you know, I asked for

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God's direction every day in,
you know, not just equipment me,

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but also like the the curriculum
I chose the people that we

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worked with.
You know, there were there are

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so many great people in this
area that homeschool and you can

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get connected in a lot of
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And, you know, sometimes you
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two kids and sometimes you need
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And then even like in high
school, we had a a good group of

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people who met together for some
high school classes.

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Because I don't know if everyone
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teaching high school is not easy
at all.

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And so even if you were
qualified to teach every single

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subject, you couldn't teach all
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You might be able to teach
everyone, just not all of them.

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It's, it's too much work and
proper prep work for each of us.

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So we, you know, we got together
with some wonderful teachers who

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knew how to teach things like
chemistry, but I definitely

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couldn't teach.
And then, you know, I helped

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with some of the other areas
that that I'm better at.

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So history and finance and that
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And it sounds like whether it
was decisions about curriculum

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or even the right community
support, especially when in high

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school, God provided in that
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But I don't, I don't want to put
words in your mouth.

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So you check me on that?
No, that's absolutely right.

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He guided in the in the
curriculum and in the classes

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and, you know, even in the
people and he put people in our

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way to further our walk with the
Lord, not just our, you know,

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education, but really your
education is part of your walk

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with the Lord.
And it should your your

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education should point you to
Jesus.

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And if it doesn't, you know, it
needs to be redirected so that,

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you know, God put people in our
way, in our path of a way.

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We had some amazing Bible
curriculum teachers in high

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school that have impacted both
of my children for the rest of

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their lives.
How so?

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Tell us more.
Well, you know, we, my husband

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and I taught them from the Bible
in, in every bit of our

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curriculum from the Bible from
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Even, you know, before we knew
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thing.
We we've always taught them and

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we've always taken them to
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So they knew all there was, you
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know about coming to the Lord,
but it didn't become personal to

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them until they learned about
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personal way in these Bible
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with the instructors that that
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have exploited just that how to
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And and you know, it's not that
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We talked to him about it, but
sometimes mom and dad are just

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mom and dad, you know, And so to
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people who brought them, you
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to, to meet Jesus there and they
both of them were changed

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completely.
It kind of changed that confuses

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others around them.
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this girl.
I heard that several times.

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I didn't even recognize her.
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thing.
And I'm, I'm so grateful that

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God brought people like that
into our lives, you know?

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Wow.
Well, tell us a little bit about

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the kids.
They're now adults and just in

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terms of, you know, how the K
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through community and other
wonderful people has sort of set

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them up for success, if you
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And obviously we can define
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ways, but just tell us about
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Well, the greatest success is
meeting the Lord Jesus, and

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absolutely, that's part of this
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And that was always our prayer
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Additionally, one of my children
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Virginia Tech and is working on
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Very successful and and married.
Is it a baby and another one on

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the way?
Please God.

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And my other child is married
and did several years with

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missions work and serving the
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And also even just in day-to-day
life, meeting with small groups

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and, and just mentoring,
missioning, mentoring or

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witnessing with other people her
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So this is an incredible thing.
She and her husband definitely

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pour into their community that
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I consider that success.
Right on.

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Yeah, that's wonderful.
Well, Maggie, let's land the

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plane here a little bit.
Thank you for sharing all of

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that.
But let's let's kind of round

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things out with the two
questions that we ask all of our

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guests and the first of which is
as it relates to the you cannot

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not home school.
And the I told you already, was

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that a coincidence or God?
That was God.

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I know there are people who
explain away a lot of things and

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you can hear it how you want as
a listener to this program.

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It might just be coincidence
that God is speaking to you

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about something else and this
did speak to you just now.

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Or it just could be words on the
radio.

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But for me, that was God
speaking to me where I was.

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This just Maggie, stubborn and
hard at hearing and and it was

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God I have no doubt.
Yeah, praise God, love the

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testimony.
Well, how has your life changed

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as a result of all of that that
you shared?

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Well, originally the plan, you
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we made plans and God laughs,
right?

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The plan was that I would leave
my career for five to six years

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and take care of my children
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And then I would go back to work
and help with, you know, family

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finances and that sort of thing.
It changed my life because I had

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a 22 year maternity leave that
was not part of the plan, you

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know, and meeting all the people
I did in the home school world

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was amazing.
I, I, probably 50% of the people

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I know in the era we're in are
somehow connected to that world,

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which is amazing.
That and of course, it made us

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watch our finances a little bit
more, you know, And funny thing

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is, I end up teaching some
finance courses for high school

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kids.
So changed me like that too.

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Yeah.
I, I think it's made me a better

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person.
I, I know it's made me a better

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person.
I, I would never have called

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myself a patient person.
And I definitely prayed for

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those, you know, patience and
peace and guidance and strength

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and encouragement from God all
the time because it takes every

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bit of that to home school.
And he gave me all of that.

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And, you know, that makes me a
better person is having that.

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Yeah, yeah.
Also my children have become

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wise in the Lord, I would say.
And they speak wisdom to me

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sometimes too, which is amazing.
You know, having that in your

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life is that's a new phase,
hearing great things come out of

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my kids.
Yeah, I suspect that that's got

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to be quite rewarding though.
It is it is yes it is.

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We all want to see our children
succeed and as I said, that is

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success.
You know that they've come to

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know the Lord and and that, you
know, trying, you know, do what

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wanting to do missions were and
and just having the wisdom that

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only comes from God.
That's success, you know, When

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we seek God first, all the rest
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He's very clear about that,
isn't he?

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Yes.
Yeah, neat that you are seeing

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that in your life and in their
lives.

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We've certainly seen it in mine.
Awesome.

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Well, stubborn Maggie says to
God.

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You couldn't possibly be wanting
me to homeschool, even though I

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think you're wanting me to
homeschool and he makes it

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crystal And then a number of
years later takes you right back

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to that moment and says, I told
you back then essentially.

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So neat, so neat.
Thank you for sharing.

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We really appreciate you being
on when you look is powered by

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yours is amazing.

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So thank you so much for sharing
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We really appreciate it.
Yes, thanks for giving me the

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opportunity and I I hope that
your audience finds an

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opportunity to glorify God just
from hearing things like this

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and other stories.
Amen.

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That is the intention for sure.
So pleasure, Maggie.

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Thanks a bunch.
Thank you.

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You decide for yourself, but I

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