Bees and Blessing
By Jasmine Lozano
I hope this podcast helps you to create the homeschool and life you desire!
Bees and BlessingFeb 11, 2022
Year Round Homeschooling vs. Taking Summer Off
Creative Neglect: It’s ok to settle (for a season)
The Strange Thing I Do When I Feel Overwhelmed
Helping a Struggling Reading
The March School Slump and tips to Overcome it
10 Assumptions About Homeschooling
Homeschooling When Life Gets Busy
How I Plan our Homeschool Year (& month & week!)
How a morning routine can set you up for a successful homeschool day
How We Homeschool Frugally
Everything is School!
School is not just the worksheets, quizzes, spelling words, math facts, U.S. Presidents, and state capitols. Learning happens all of the time every day. Don't limit yourself or your learner to thinking learning only happens at the table or with a book. We have opportunities to learn all around us. Everything is School!
Top 5 Tips for Beginner Homeschoolers from a Newish Homeschooler
Your Best Year in 2023 Starts with Just One Thing
Welcome to Bees & Blessing! Our Homeschool Story
In the fall of 2020, we homeschooling and haven't looked back. We are in our 3rd year and things are getting better every year! I'm learning what works best for our family and schedule.
I'm starting this podcast and my blog to encourage newcomers that you can homeschool your kids. I want to remind veterans that they are building a foundation that will help their children accomplish their dreams and reach their potential. I want to share the joys, the struggles, the victories, and even the failures that come with the blessing of choosing to home educate our children.
Home education has added so much value to our lives and I want to share that with you!
Check out this podcast as blog @ beesandblessing.family.blog
Last Episode of Seeking God, Loving Others
Handling Conflict as a Christian
Did you know that there is a biblical way to handle difficult relationships? God's word is filled with instruction on handle money, familial issues, and even conflict. As believers, we operate by a different set of laws. In this episode, I'll talk about how to approach conflict in a relationship using God's word.
The Blessing of Less: Intentionally seeking a simpler life
Returning to our First Love
Welcome Back! Season 3 is here and we’re talking about fruit!
You Can Adapt to the Seasons
I love living in a part of the country where I get to experience seasons. While summer is my favorite, I can appreciate the unique things that each season gives. I love the color of the leaves in the fall, the cleanness of a fresh winter snow, and seeing the trees regain their green jackets of leaves in the spring. If we aren't careful, we can take for granted what each season has to offer in our lives and grow to either resent where we are or cling to a season that has been gone for a long time. In this quick episode, I hope you enjoy joy talking about how we can appreciate whatever season of life we are in.
Spiritual Mise-en-Place (Put in Place); Putting on the full armor of God
I recently read a book by Dan Charnas called Work Clean. Amazon describes the book as "The first organizational book inspired by the culinary world, taking mise-en-place outside the kitchen. Every day, chefs across the globe churn out enormous amounts of high-quality work with efficiency using a system called mise-en-place—a French culinary term that means “putting in place” and signifies an entire lifestyle of readiness and engagement. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas reveals how to apply mise-en-place outside the kitchen, in any kind of work."
Of course, my mind went to how can this apply to the life of a believer? Are there certain things that we can put in pace as believers to live highly effective lives that influence the Kingdom of God? Of course there are! Good gave us a sort of spiritual mise-en-place in Ephesians 6:10-18 when he welcomed us to put on the full armor of God. In today's podcast, I'll be talking about this armor and how to use it!
I’ve Missed You!! Where I’ve Been, What I’ve Been Doing, & What’s Going On
Return of the Shunammite: Obedience to God is always the best option, regardless of the outcome
As I get ready to leave the land of Shunem, I wonder where God will take me next. The final installment of this series ends with the last event recorded from the Shunammite woman’s life. In 2 Kings 8:1-6, the Shunammite finds herself in need of one last miracle from God.
Everything is Alright: Sometimes the progress is in the process
Everything is Alright: Faith is not ignoring facts, it’s moving forward despite them.
Optimistic thinking, positive affirmations, good confessions. You may have heard of these ideas. You make think they're crazy, or maybe you do them everyday. But confessing good things over you life is nothing new. In fact, it's Biblical! Join me to day as we talk more about the amazing life of the Shunammite woman from 2 Kings 4.
Everything is Alright
In 2 Kings 4, there is an account of someone who did just that. Instead of focusing on what was going wrong, the Shunammite woman (I talked about her last month in Make Room) confesses boldly "Everything is alright!" when literally everything was falling apart. Over the next few weeks, I'll be writing and talking about her story and the incredible testimony of God's provision, healing, and restoration in her life.
When Life Gets Crazy
Changing lives with Radical Hospitality, Disruptive Generosity and Intentional Compassion. My interview with Amy Wolfe
Today, I'm chatting with my friend, Amy Wolfe, the Director of Development for Safe Families Wisconsin Chapter. When Amy and her family opened their home to two little girls in 2019, she had no idea that this decision would open her eyes to the opportunities we have as the body of Christ to be a blessing to our community. Safe Families for Children is a family preservation movement motivated by radical hospitality, disruptive generosity, and intentional compassion to keep children safe and families together. They bring church and community together mobilizing an army of volunteers to advocate for vulnerable children and socially isolated families. Their goal is to grow a national movement of change agents passionate about protecting children and preserving families in communities across the nation and the world.
The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian Worldhttps://www.safefamilieswi.org
Make Room: An Example of Radical Hospitality
There is an amazing story in 2 Kings 4 about a woman who isn't even named but whose story has been used as an example of radical hospitality and disruptive generosity to this day. What would happen if we opened our hearts and homes to others to be the blessing and impact that God has called us be? Find out in today's episode what happens when we make room.
Saying Yes to God
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. James 4:7-10
We've declared this a Year of Yes for God. We've identified the distractions and how to overcome them. So how do we actually say yes? Thankfully the answers are found in the book of James.
Distractions in the Year of Yes
A Year of Yes
Building Your Temple: Take Care to Prepare
Solomon wasn't leaving the building of the temple of God up to chance. In 2 Chronicles 2:5 he says, “The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods."
The temple that God has given us (our bodies) should be great. Our families should be great. Our finances should be great. Our relationships should be great. Our churches should be great. Why? Because our God is great! You don't have to have all of the answers, because you can seek the God who has them. But you can take some time to prepare as best as you can and leave the rest to Him.
Building Your Temple: Plan to Prosper
Building Your Temple: Pray Before You Plan
Building Your Temple
I Finished My First Marathon!
You can still donate to my fundraising goal through November 22 @ teamworldvision.org/participant/270274
Run Your Race!
You can still donate to my fundraising goal through February @ teamworldvision.org/participant/270274
If You Love It, You'll Do It
How often do we neglect the things we love because our energy is spent on other things? Jesus said in John 14:15 "If you love me, you will obey my commandments." Today, I talk about how this plays out both spiritually and naturally.
Choosing Peace
Occupancy Limit Reached
“Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God. They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.”
Ecclesiastes 5:19-20 NIV
Sabbath Rest
What You Thought Was Dead
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Stop Pacifying the Pain; Fix the Problem
Oftentimes, we try to treat the symptoms of pain rather than fixing the problem. In today’s episode, we’ll dive into this idea a bit more!
Blog: JasmineLozano.com
Marathon Fundraiser: www.teamworldvision.org/participant/270274
Welcome to Season 2!! Summer Recap and Happenings
SEASON FINALE: Who’s in Your Boat Pt. 2
-Ziad K. Abdelnour
In this week’s episode, we’ll look at the type of people you want and don’t want in Your boat.
Sometimes our lives are not heading in the right direction simply because of who we’ve allowed to be a part of it. Enjoy the last episode of the season in this two part series, Who’s in Your Boat?
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** Season 1 is wraps up today July 16th with Season 2 starting the first Friday of September. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!
Who is in Your Boat? Pt. 1 of 2
-Ziad K. Abdelnour
In this week’s episode, we’ll look at a group of sailors who had the wrong person in their boat. The story of Jonah not only shows what happens to a man who disobeys God, but how it affects innocent bystanders.
Sometimes our lives are not heading in the right direction simply because of who we’ve allowed to be a part of it. Enjoy the first episode of this two part series, Who’s in Your Boat?
Read the blog @ jasminelozano.com/2021/07/09/whos-in-your-boat-part-1-of-2/
**New episodes will now be posted on Fridays!! Season 1 is wrapping up July 16th with Season 2 starting the first Friday of September. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!
Don’t Wait for Perfection
Go and Make, not Come and Take
Walk and Talk with Me!
Enjoy the new segment, Pause for a Proverbs!
Today's Proverb:
Proverbs 22:26-27 Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.