One of the many blessings of serving as president of Home School Legal Defense Association is that I get to call and personally thank folks who have donated to our cause. I very often get their voicemail and leave a message, but I always end by giving the direct number to my desk with an invitation to call me anytime.
The other day I made one of those calls and left a voicemail. The following day, my phone rang and the woman on the other end, brimming with enthusiasm, said, “Hearing your message was such a blessing to my family.”
That astonished me. I was calling to thank her, but she was blessed by hearing from me.
She went on to tell me that she had been homeschooled for most of her growing-up years, and that she has been homeschooling her own children now for almost two decades.
“Your call reminded me of how thankful we are that HSLDA has stood with homeschool families all these years,” she said.
In that moment, blessing multiplied blessing.
She was blessed. I was blessed. We were blessed.
And that, I think, is the way the homeschool
movement has grown and endured—through
ordinary acts of gratitude, faith, and service that
ripple outward in ways we may never fully see.