3rd Day of Schoool Holidays – Baking
13 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
in General Blather Tags: Christmas, Cookies
I just love Christmas time and all the holiday baking that goes with it. Today Lily and I made Stained Glass Window Cookies. We used the recipe from NorthPole.Com but with a quick google search you can find lots of variations on the same theme.
These were delicious.
2nd Day of School Holidays – Water Play
10 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
I am so proud of my little girl.
she has finished a whole year of prep and finished well. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were heading down the footpath with her trotting along in front, wearing a school bag as big her, to the first day of prep.
It’s now the second day of school holidays and she is outside engaging in ‘Water play’. And having a ball!
So it looks good now but it’s only day two. I will have to get creative with some other ideas for the rest of the holidays. All she wants to do is go back to school. She can’t understand why we have to have school holidays.
On a different topic I have just completed the first of some day surgery procedures to work out what is going on with my health.
I was diagnosed with PCOS about 25 years ago but it wasn’t until last week that I realised how little ‘treatment’ I had actually received for the condition. I could rage and get upset about how the medical system has let me down but what’s the point?
I am very grateful though to my new GP who has been very thorough with my medical history and investigating my symptoms. One thing led to another and she referred me to a Gastroenterologist and yesterday I had a Colonoscopy and Gastroscopy together. To my surprise they found I had a Hiatus Hernia and the first stages of Diverticulitis. A polyp was also removed from my colon.
So nothing to do with my PCOS but I am very glad these things were discovered.
I have more surgery to come next week but that is another blog…. 
I will leave you with something to smile at. I found this song on youtube.
Thinking this past week of the people God has placed in my families life . I can’t help but Praise God.
We are completely unable to afford these surgeries and tests on our own yet God has blessed us abundantly with people who have stepped up and paid for some of my medical expenses. We serve a mighty God and I know He loves me.
Getting the Jesus Story right
01 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
in General Blather Tags: children, Christmas, Jesus, Noah's Ark
Driving home from Prep with our 4 year old on Monday and she began to tell us the story of Jesus that she had heard in chapel that day.
She told us all about the baby Jesus being born in a manger.
“Mum, that’s where the animals eat their dinner.”
I then asked her why the baby Jesus was born in a manger and not in a hotel room or house in Bethlehem.
“Because Mum all the houses and hotels were washed away in Noah’s big flood!”
This, mind you was said with such an air of authourity that I really didn’t know how to correct her version of events.
Baby Jesus in the Manger
In the Sunshine
17 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
in General Blather Tags: garden, sun, sunshine
Lily and I soaking in the rays.
Swinging in the Sunshine and the Desires of our Heart
17 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
in General Blather Tags: bible, children, love
She’s out there now. My Daughter, swinging in the sunshine on the old wooden swing under the tree in our back yard.
I never tire of looking at her. She is a beautiful and amazing gift from God.
I don’t know long I will get to keep writing here today because she is calling for me to come and play in the sunshine.
I will hold this thought and get back to you shortly.
That old mothers day quote seems especially true at the moment.
“Making the decision to have a child – It’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”- Elizabeth Stone
Lily was never what I imagined when I dreamed of motherhood. Yet she is so much more than I could ever have dreamed of.
God says in the book of psalms ch 37 verses 4-8 that;
Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. {5} Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. {6} He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday. {7} Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. {8} Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; Do not fret; it only causes harm.
I know the Bible says this. I know Gods word is true yet I am constantly surprised by the depth of love I have for Lily and how she is truly the daughter of my heart.
This is all on my mind as Alberts four year old cousin Jake, is in the ICU in Townsville. He has internal injuries and is critical. My heart hurts for his Mum and Dad, Ted and Hannah. Their anguish must be great. Our children really are our hearts walking around outside our bodies.
Praying for Jakes’ recovery.
Feeling Peppy and encouraged
23 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
Spring is coming and I am just loving the weather at the moment. (Look out window at the rain) Well today doesn’t count. But we have had glorious weather here in Sydney for the past week.
Last week got to hang out with some lovely ladies and learn some flower arranging.
I finished the poncho I had started for my niece.
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A Week of Learning
16 Aug 2010 1 Comment
in General Blather Tags: Acts 29, community focused., gospel, missional minded
It’s been such a wonderful week of learning new things and growing beyong my comfort zone. I have so many things going through my mind right now.
Last Monday and Tuesday I was priviledged enough to attend the Sydney Acts 29 Bootcamp. The information I got was mind blowing to say the least. It was one of those times when you know soomething but you don’t really KNOW it.
The speakers just laid all the information out in such a simple but insightful way. They talked about Christians being Missional minded and Community focused. I know your saying ” Yeah so what’s the revelation?”
But think about it. How often are we Missional Minded and Community focused? I think we get off track alot of times on what the Gospel real is.
Reaching people with the Gospel of Christ is not all about handing out tracks and sticking our foot in someones doorway and telling them to pray the prayer of repentance becauuse their hell bound.
The gospel is about getting out there and meeting people in our community and finding out what their needs are and showing them that Christ can meet their every need.
My head is just a buzz with ideas on how to share the gospel. Christ’s love is what gets me through everyday and I want to share that with people.
Then on Sunday our Pastor talked more about the gosepl and how in Christ there is freedom to serve Him. That there is NO condemnation in Christ. I’ve read this a hundred times but I really didn’t get it till this Sunday. It was such a revelation to me. Being a christian is not about abiding to the man made rules that a lot of churches set out or make you feel guilty when you don’t live like them. Christs death on the cross took away ALL my guilt and shame. Romans 8 says
1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
I can let go of all my baggage that I carry with me constantly. It’s a wonderful feeling to leave it all behind.
Then I get this great link from my sister and it just ties in with the rest of the week. Its been wonderful.
it’s been far to long my friend…..
01 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in General Blather Tags: change, Equip Wives, friends, ministry
Dear Blog
Please forgive me for my absence it has been far to long since we last conversed.
Seriously though I can not believe it has been a year since I last blogged. So much happening in my universe.
And I love it!
A year ago I did not think I would be where I am today. In that one year I have met people, been places and ate things that I just never expected.
Which takes me back to the point I have blogged on before.
CHANGE IS GOOD.
Change gets us to step outside ur comfort barrier. Although sometimes it feels like Change has shoved us out with a firm hand in the middle of our back!
This time last year I was about to attend my first Equip Wives seminar at St Andrews Cathedral Sydney. I was terrified. Albert had booked and paid for me to go and he had told me… “Go, make some new friends”
We had recently moved to the other side of the city where we really did not know anyone apart from the people at the new church we were attending. I had already begun to make friends there but the Seminar was Wives of those in ministry so when it came to attending the seminar, being the wife of the Pastor meant I was going to the seminar alone.
I arrived at the seminar alone feeling very awkward and uncomfortable. There was a couple hundred women there and they all seemed to know each other.
The first hour or so of the seminar I sat alone hoping that people would talk to me but on the other hand hoping they wouldn’t. Isn’t that silly?
But then a lovely lady came up out of the crowd and intorduced herself and chatted for awhile. She was so nice. She introduced to some more ladies and I had a wonderful day.
So the day started off seemingly doomed to failure but in the end was lovely. I met people who are now friends and I am looking forward to attending again this year.
I was forced to put myself out there. Forced to put my emotions out for people to see. And don’t we all hate that? Because on some level we all hate knock backs. I sometimes feel like I am back in the school yard standing there waiting to be picked for the sports team, having those two team leaders eye me up and down and assess me to see if I am worthy to play for them.
Do they still do that school ? I hope teachers have done away this system of choosing teams. It’s quite cruel.
Anyway as you have probably already gathered this blog entry is a bit of a meander. I have been thinking about the past year alot and am just trying to blog out some of my thoughts.
- Change is good
- Blessings come when you are brave enough to put yourself out for examination (not always but alot of the time)
- And teachers should abandon the ‘Team Leaders Choose Sports Team’ method.
How do you become a Christian Mum
05 Jul 2009 2 Comments
We witnessed 2 people being baptised at Church today and it raised a lot of questions for Lily, now aged 3 1/2.
She wanted to know why the people went in and under the water. I explained to her that it was to show a picture of how our old sinful life is buried and we come out of the grave a new clean spirit because Jesus died on the cross for our sins. I explained to her that when you believe that Jesus is God’s son and that the reason He died on the cross was for you then that means you are a ‘Christian’. When you ask Jesus to come and live in your heart and let Him lead your life you will live with God in heaven when you die.
Lily then said that when she is big like me and her father then she will be a Christian. I told her that she did not have to wait until she was old to be a Christian. I told her, “You can be a Christian when you are any age, even a kid“.
Lily then said she wanted to be a Christian and, “Mum. Shh be quiet now I want to pray”.
So, at 11am today, this is what she prayed;
Dear God, and Jesus, please come and live right here in my heart and help me to be a Christian so I can go to heaven when I die. Amen.
Ahh, a childs faith is so precious and simple isn’t it?
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