Sinai Covenant and Marriage Covenant

Sinai Covenant and Marriage Covenant
It is an enlightening exercise to compare the Sinai covenant with the marriage covenant by interpreting the Ten Commandments as ten principles of conduct for married people.
Paul Stevens has produced a most perceptive comparison between the two covenants by means of the following table:
Covenant Between                           Covenant Between
Israel and Yahweh                          Wife and [...]

Feel Good About Home Education

Feel Good about …
Homeschooling
http://classicalworld.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/why-do-people-homeschool/ - yay for dedicated teachers!
Homeschooling .. or is that feel good about not doing school in Quebec?
http://thechurchofjesuschrist.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/quebec-kills-parents-rights-to-choose-religion-instruction/
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08101703.html
Freedom of Choice …?
http://libertyvsleviathan.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/homeschool-health-and-leviathan/ - immunisation and homeschooling
http://homeschoolbenefits.wordpress.com/
Thinking Children …
http://kidswhothink.blogspot.com/ - hard boil the eggs first? what fun!
Feeling Good!
http://hnracademy.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/125/ - I call her Mummy
Children’s security
http://leaphomeschool.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/famcirexpelled1.jpg - cartoon
Having time to look at these art barcodes!
http://inventorspot.com/articles/barcode_art_from_japan_black_white_can_get_along_12735
Blessings…
Johanna
original : October 2008

It Makes Sense

For MUMSense Magazine, NZ, (c) April 2009
Living Each Day of Your Life
“What a wonderful world!”
“Life is for living.”
It’s a great day, a beautiful day;
The kind of day that makes you want to say
“I’m glad that I’m alive”,
I’m happy to be me,
and that’s the way to be … (thanks, Barney).
As much as I liked my children [...]

Based on a True Story

Based on a True Story – James Choung
- A fresh new way to understand the Christian faith
- A handy, bite-sized booklet that Christians can give to their friends
Everybody likes a good story. Especially if it’s based on true, real-life events.
But what kind of story is compelling enough to transform your life?
Can a story be powerful [...]

5 minutes to chocolate!

Chocolate Mug Cake
- submitted by Michelle, MOPS graduate (MPL)
1 Coffee Mug (or 1 cup pyrex jug)
4 tablespoons flour (that’s plain flour, not self-rising)
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
Nuts (optional)
Small splash of vanilla
Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.
Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in [...]

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ThTh : Rejection + Parenting

It is common to be parenting from a place of inadequacy – all because of our frailty as humans.
Because of our undealt-with rejection from days gone by, we become a ‘wallflower’, hide behind the newspaper, or studiously watch TV in order to protect ourselves from more rejection. We isolate ourselves from others. Withdraw. Try to minimise our hurt [...]

ThTh : Shame + Parenting

Parent styles 
will respond differently in typical childhood situations. Consider a 4-year-old child spilling juice.
Sergeant Major
“You clumsy child! How many times have I told you not to help yourself to the juice – but no, you never listen? Get out of here because your poor old mother is going to have to clean up after you again.”
We see [...]

ThTh : Fear + Parenting

Fear is not overcome by dealing with the fear; it is overcome by DOING the fearful thing. You overcome fear by facing the tiger with your fear and discovering that you can walk away alive. In time you laugh at the tiger, for it was only paper. But if your child flees from the tiger, [...]

MM : 10 Hallmarks of Well-Being

Ten Hallmarks of Well-Being
1. My life has meaning & direction.
2.  I have experienced one or more important transitions in my adult years, and I have handled these transitions in an unusual, personal, or creative way.
3.  I rarely feel cheated or disappointed by life.
4.  I have already attained several of the long-term goals that are important [...]