Prayers and Sharings

Great lesson from John and Karen this evening. Guess they've put my innermost thoughts of many years into words. Through their preaching, I realised how much God has blessed me over the years even when I was still a pagan and sinning against Him. He showed me how dysfunctional my own family was, and what I need to do in order to break the vicious cycle and give my children a sound and functioning family. No doubt I still fall into sin's ways for I am imperfect, but I realise it fairly quickly and repent readily and apologise to my husband and kids, so that minimal damage is done. And I praise God for giving me the ability to and instilling in me the idea to get a postgraduate diploma in teaching, for now is the time my kids need me most and I can stay home for them, teach them myself and yet earn extra income for the family by teaching.

I'm glad my kids are sensitive and intelligent kids despite the fact that they can throw unreasonable tantrums at times. They are aware of my actions of evangelising to their friends' parents, and they help me by telling their friends about God. Unfortunately many of their friends are Muslims and are hence unreceptive to the idea, but I'm proud to say they never give up. And I love those cosy moments when we share with one another what we learn on Sundays in church and during our devos (yes, Nathanial is doing his own devo with minimal guidance now!!!). I would share with them the sermons and what I learnt from it including the verses which we will look up in their Bibles, and they in turn would share with me whjat they learnt at Kids' Kingdom. We would then conclude with the lesson we've learnt and a prayer before we retire for the night. This is my favourite time, though sadly it happens just once a week on Sunday. Other nights from Mondays to Thursdays I have tuition and Fridays are for midweek. Really looking forward to the time when they are older and have a later bedtime so that we may share more of such cosy moments together.

Spewaking about cosy moments, I'm toying with the idea of adopting a baby when my kids are older, perhaps in upper primary or lower secondary, when they no longer want me buzzing around their heads. But this is a major decision and Adrian and I really find it hard to come to an agreement with it despite having discussed about it for over 5 years now. Please pray for us to do God's bidding.

Love,
Carol