Week Five

WOW! What another great week!

Let's start with Capernwray this time - This weeks topic was Mark and Ivor Jones presented the lectures. He is a great man from Marysville VIC (and yes, he and his wife lost their home and everything in it to the fires on Black Saturday)and with the gospel of Mark we focused on Jesus the servant. But not just any servant. Jesus was the Divine Servant, the Obedient Servant, the Proclaiming Servant, the Conquering Servant, the Itinerant Servant, the Teaching Servant, the prophetic Servant, the Forsaken Servant, the Suffering Servant and the Triumphant Servant! All of these of course point to the verse found in Mark 10:45 "For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and give His life as a ransom for many." - Doesn't that just say it all?!

All of this term too, we are studying the Old Testament which has been really interesting - getting all the different interuptations of what people believe and why - mainly about Genesis plus we are spending all term doing a subject called Hermeneutics which basically means the science and art of Biblical interpretation. In this subject we are learning the tools to interpret, explain and expound what the Bible means so that we don't misinterpret scripture. We will soon be looking at exegesis and homiletics too. But this week we looked at the possbile 'gaps' which hinder our understandings of the original intended message eg. historical, cultural, religious, technological, linguistic, biological, philosophical, geographical and social. And didn't that invoke into some interesting debates! Oh, how we all are a product of the nuturing we have received - whether right or wrong!

But life outside of Cass - Rykr took a overnight excursion to Bathurst Gold Fields. He had a great time with all his friends and Mr. J his teacher. They learned a lot, ate lot but didn't sleep a lot. It was a long time on the bus (4 hours each way!) which I just can not image doing with 30+ kids. What brave school teachers we have! This picture blows me away and I really saw that my boy is becoming a teenager - I can no longer keep thinking of them as the cute little boys in kindergarten......ho humm.......

Kael started the week abit unwell, got better and returned to school only to come home of Friday night with the dreaded cough! Poor man! But he is doing so well at school and he is loved by all the teachers - using the Sabben Charm!

Garth was strong this week and decided the put his foot down with Swae not sleeping at night- something I have been far to soft to do! BUT after just 2 nights of LOTS of crying things started to get better and last night our baby girl sleep for 12 hours only waking briefly once at 4:30am. So, we are hoping (but not getting our hopes up) that this is the turning point in all our lives for the possibility to sleeping like normal people again!

On Friday Garth and the girls were spoiled and were shouted to go to soft play with our friends and their children. He was a bit unsure about hanging out with all the mums but came home happy because he had a great time and enjoyed the morning totally. What great friends we have!

And speaking of GREAT friends - this week we had a ute full of free carpet dropped off at our house! I was so excited and overwhelmed I almost cried! What a huge change that will make to our home when it gets laid - we will have a nice floor!

But I have to present a Bible study that I have to write this week - So I better go get to work!