The difference a little water makes!
Yet another 'Choose Day' - and an object lesson that I couldn't have planned better if I tried!
As our bathrooms are not yet functional, one has been used as a nursery of sorts for seedlings through winter and spring - chillies, tomatoes and this week - cucumbers.
As it happened, the last day and half they received no water and had started to shrivel...
Definitely time to kill two birds with one stone...
Read More...Bible Sword
with a twist…
Bible Sword is probably a very well known game in church / religious circles - but we have adapted it slightly to be more challenging, fun and foundational…
In the way we have seen it played, someone will call out a scripture reference and it is a race to find that reference in the Bible first. But I have often wondered: is this learning to use a ‘sword’ - is this good training or just learning about the sword.
How can we make it more fun, engaging, relevant and useful?
Read on to find out how we do it...
Read More...You Stink
You Stink!
I have much to be ashamed of in my life…
Recently I read a little about a case in America where 13 children were supposedly abused and kept locked up in a suburban house. The story, as portrayed, was horrific and hard to read, let alone imagine through one of the children’s eyes…
I think there is much more to the story than has been reported - and the presented story has quite obvious flaw and inconsistencies*… (possibly to champion the public call for a ban on homeschooling or further deride Christianity). However, this is not the focus or object of this article.
I do have to say first though, that if the abuses reported are accurate, they have not been perpetrated by Christians as reported in the media. God has a very high value and recognition of children - definitely not one that condones abuse or neglect. Any claim to the contrary is a blatant lie or attempt to deceive.
The main grip occurred after reading one of the news reports from someone who attended a kindergarten with one of the children. They recounted that one of the children attended and was always in the same clothes and smelt bad. They recalled how the other children would mock them.
It would be years later that people would realise that she was not fed, had only one set of clothes, was chained to a bed and forced to sit in her own faeces (according to reports). For me, this evoked powerful emotions - and unfortunately, bad memories.
Erly Kerly
How this simple drawing brought me to tears…
🎶You are my freedom - You are the reason…I kneel at Your throne once again. 🎶
🎶Where would I be without You…here in my life? 🎶
The words of this song were playing as I pulled out a picture given to me by my daughter last night…
Killing Rats
Poisoning Rats, Stealing Cars
And how it relates to you…
Do you know how many cars are stolen in California, USA each year? Well in 2016, over 86 thousand were stolen which equates to about 10 per hour!
How many are made known to the public in real time? Virtually none. But in 1981, the police went to great lengths to inform the public that they needed to find the thief of a certain car - even going as far as getting radio coverage.
It wasn’t the value of the car, and the thief hadn’t murdered anyone? Why the special attention?