I have fond memories as a student of time spent at the beach with my best mate. We used to decide on Friday afternoon that we needed some surf time…so we threw some clothes into a tog bag, jumped into his beach buggy, turned the CD player up as high as we could and made […]
Parenting for eternity
Someone recently posted a blog asking parents how they discipline, train and disciple their children. So many answers, so many opinions, so many philosophies – most totally contradicting one another – my head was swimming! So how do we know what is right? What are the chances of us doing a “good job” in raising […]
Raising Little People to know Jesus
Raising Little People is not something that school or university prepares us for. Suddenly this little, absolutely helpless screeching bundle is trustingly placed in your arms as the whole world turns their gaze upon you – what now? Recalling a puppy we once had or a baby kitten maybe the closest we got to holding […]
The Heart of Mom
A quiet moment snapped between the craziness of life. A moment of pure uninterrupted thought. A moment, a mere spell of seconds or maybe an hour – until Mom is once again on call. Who would have ever thought of the pure blissful joy of meager silence, of a consecutive string of orderly thought, being […]
The place to be…
When I was a student I have fond memories of hanging out at a particular family’s house. It seemed that every weekend we ended up there. The parents would go to bed on Friday night with no one in the house except them, and wake up on Saturday morning with up to fifteen sleeping bodies […]
The danger of labels
Categorizing, grouping, sorting and labeling help us feel that we have a sense of control. These skills are vital in getting things done and help us retain order in our lives. Although the categorizing of others gives us the greatest sense of order, often we don’t realize the damage our need for control inflicts upon […]