Just one week to holidays!
Capernwray spoiled us with (dare I say) the best lecturer yet! Ken Legg is a Pastor of a church in Queensland and runs small group programs, Check out www.small-groups-ministries/ken-legg This week we did 'The Identity Driven Life'. It is a 10 session course which uncovers all the lies you have been taught in life about were to find your worth and value eg. through other people, through achievement etc. And also what has developed in your "filter" because of these lies and hence why you react to things the way you do. I learned sooooo much about myself and the need to believe God's truths over mans lies. I am the person God created and He loves me. With God all things are possible and His Spirit lies within me, teaching me and growing me to be all I can be in Christ. This all sounds very familiar hey? But do you act on your faith? I was really challenged over the course of the week and I look forward to shedding my old warped ideas that the world feeds you and living in the truth found in God's word.
On Tuesday we had the pleasure of having 3 of the students around for dinner and we even ate the first of our garden grown vegetable's... well we had some silver beet but it was yummy. Unfortunately, the next thing growing in our patch was this zucchini (pictured) who, even after so much love and attention as the first fruits, stayed this size for over a week and eventually got eaten by our enemies (grubs)! And after picking off a gallery of green caterpillars and little yellow eggs from the white butterflies, I invested in some Yates Garden Dust and relished in see the little attackers squirm! Here, Here to their impending deaths!
Garth's week was... actually, see if you can guess what his week was like: It started with girls having High temps, he attended lots of night calls from screaming girls, went through boxes of tissues hoping to save clothes and carpet from "Number 11's" (runny noses) for days on end, feeling exhausted from wearing one in particular child on his hip all day, and his ears hurt from all the whinging and crying that resulted from their conditions. To top it off, Friday produced the worst shopping trip in existence as he cruised the isles with not 1 but 2 tantruming girls attracting all the typical undesired looks from onlookers. And if you think it can't get much worse, today he has developed his re-occurring eye condition AGAIN, just weeks after the last flair up (usually they are months to a year apart). So, needless to say, Garth had the worst week ever!
Yet hope is on the wind with holidays in grabbing distance and he enjoyed a evening at the movies with Kael seeing "How to train your dragon" - apparently it was awesome. Thankfully he has had plenty of opportunities to zone out and play the computer this week (because I have needed to do lots of study) thus filling his 'coping skills' tank!
Our boys are going REALLY well with school and participated in the cross country this week. Both of them were tired but enjoy themselves. Homework is not the saga it use to be although still not easy but oh, so much better! They have both received Encouragement Award Certificates from their teachers - the fine young man in them is emerging.
I also enjoyed a brief farewell party to our dear friend Amanda - her smiling face and positive witness will be greatly missed in the Southern Highlands - actually her whole family will be missed. Praise God for them and may they know His faithfullness all the more as they embark on a new journey for Him.
And we had more carpert laid upstairs on Saturday by our great mate, Brent King - What a servant heart he has! Sometimes I have to stop and remember that Garth and I have only earned less than $500 since December the 10th last year and we are still here! Only in God could we have the security we have and the blessings that have come from stepping out in faith.
Capernwray spoiled us with (dare I say) the best lecturer yet! Ken Legg is a Pastor of a church in Queensland and runs small group programs, Check out www.small-groups-ministries/ken-legg This week we did 'The Identity Driven Life'. It is a 10 session course which uncovers all the lies you have been taught in life about were to find your worth and value eg. through other people, through achievement etc. And also what has developed in your "filter" because of these lies and hence why you react to things the way you do. I learned sooooo much about myself and the need to believe God's truths over mans lies. I am the person God created and He loves me. With God all things are possible and His Spirit lies within me, teaching me and growing me to be all I can be in Christ. This all sounds very familiar hey? But do you act on your faith? I was really challenged over the course of the week and I look forward to shedding my old warped ideas that the world feeds you and living in the truth found in God's word.
On Tuesday we had the pleasure of having 3 of the students around for dinner and we even ate the first of our garden grown vegetable's... well we had some silver beet but it was yummy. Unfortunately, the next thing growing in our patch was this zucchini (pictured) who, even after so much love and attention as the first fruits, stayed this size for over a week and eventually got eaten by our enemies (grubs)! And after picking off a gallery of green caterpillars and little yellow eggs from the white butterflies, I invested in some Yates Garden Dust and relished in see the little attackers squirm! Here, Here to their impending deaths!
Garth's week was... actually, see if you can guess what his week was like: It started with girls having High temps, he attended lots of night calls from screaming girls, went through boxes of tissues hoping to save clothes and carpet from "Number 11's" (runny noses) for days on end, feeling exhausted from wearing one in particular child on his hip all day, and his ears hurt from all the whinging and crying that resulted from their conditions. To top it off, Friday produced the worst shopping trip in existence as he cruised the isles with not 1 but 2 tantruming girls attracting all the typical undesired looks from onlookers. And if you think it can't get much worse, today he has developed his re-occurring eye condition AGAIN, just weeks after the last flair up (usually they are months to a year apart). So, needless to say, Garth had the worst week ever!
Yet hope is on the wind with holidays in grabbing distance and he enjoyed a evening at the movies with Kael seeing "How to train your dragon" - apparently it was awesome. Thankfully he has had plenty of opportunities to zone out and play the computer this week (because I have needed to do lots of study) thus filling his 'coping skills' tank!
Our boys are going REALLY well with school and participated in the cross country this week. Both of them were tired but enjoy themselves. Homework is not the saga it use to be although still not easy but oh, so much better! They have both received Encouragement Award Certificates from their teachers - the fine young man in them is emerging.
I also enjoyed a brief farewell party to our dear friend Amanda - her smiling face and positive witness will be greatly missed in the Southern Highlands - actually her whole family will be missed. Praise God for them and may they know His faithfullness all the more as they embark on a new journey for Him.
And we had more carpert laid upstairs on Saturday by our great mate, Brent King - What a servant heart he has! Sometimes I have to stop and remember that Garth and I have only earned less than $500 since December the 10th last year and we are still here! Only in God could we have the security we have and the blessings that have come from stepping out in faith.
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