"I know who you are!" she said to me

A few years ago I sat down with a group of parents from my kids school, when one of the mothers looked me in the eye and stated quite simply "I know who you are!" unsure of what to make of this and with a startled look on my face she went on "You're the mom with the noisy kids who came into Church last Sunday and sat at the front of the Church." My thoughts went back to the Sunday before and realized that she was in fact correct. I had indeed came into the Church late and knowing that my kids would settle better in a confined space made a bee line for the only free chairs I had spotted that were in the first few rows of the church. Unsure of what I was meant to say to this woman I was now meeting for the first time I decided to just simply admit to being that woman. She again looked at me in the eye and continued on with the conversation the group was having.

The next few days I not only discovered just who her child was, but that her daughter was also one of my own daughter's best friends. I was not sure at first how she would respond to the fact that our daughter's were friends or how I felt about it. My daughter had just started school when they had become friends and in the lead up to her starting school, I had been praying for God to find friends for her that would be by her side always and I was beginning to realize that God had indeed answered that prayer. I started to get to know the other girls mother and realized that she is the type of person who speaks her mind and that you could in fact have a laugh with her.

This incident in my life made me realize that when I had handed over my kids lives to God and ask God to be in charge of our kid's friendships that God will find them the right kids that suit our kid's best. I would most likely have never chosen this child to be my daughter's friend, but I know who did and it has turned out to be a good friendship.

It is important to pray for our children, but often we have no real idea on what to pray for our children. I often found myself praying for the instant needs of my children than the future needs of my children, such as praying for the right person to come into their lives for them to marry. Asking for God to reveal their hidden talents for me to develop. As you can see from what happened when I prayed for my children's friendship, you can often be unprepared for what God knows is best for your child and since I have prayed for my children's friendship I have found that these friends have stuck by my children and remained solid friends with my children.

Making decisions that affect our children

Making decisions that affect our children take a lot of time and consideration, often we don’t even think of praying into these decisions we are making. I tend to find myself discussing my view with my husband and listening to his views that I forget to talk to my children about their own ideas and feelings on the situation. I have been learning over the years just how important my children’s views and feelings about situations can be especially when it comes to making decisions that affect themselves; often I find that they understand the situation and will give you another insight into what decisions need to be made.

God understands our need to make our own decisions good or bad, after all you only have to know about Adam and Eve to know that God will stick with us even when we make the wrong decision. Right now I am taking the step to get my daughters to join another netball club. A lot of my daughters friends play on the same team as her and I thought that she would not want to shift clubs so I was trying to work out how to let her know of our (hubby and I) decision to try another club. My oldest daughter over heard our conversations and started to ask questions. I took her aside and told her the reasons that I was looking to join her and her sister to another club and to my surprise she was excited at the prospect and has given her choice as to which team she would like to join.

If you are making a decision that will affect your child or children please talk to them and find out their views on the situation, it may be different than you think!






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Dear God

I was in the mood for a movie last night and found one titled ‘Dear God’. Now I was not sure of what to make of the information provided for the movie, but I did decide to watch it for about twenty minutes. At the end of the movie I was left with two questions. Can God use ordinary people to do extraordinary things? And should we literally play God? Now the answer to the first question is found all over the bible and the answer to the questions ‘Can God use ordinary people to do extraordinary things? Is yes, if you don’t believe me take a look at Esther, Gideon and the twelve disciples to see just how much God uses ordinary people. The Second question ‘Should we literally play God?’ is also a yes and is again in the bible (2 Corinthians 5:20) states that God can make his appeal through you.

‘Dear God ‘ (1996) is about a con man named Tom Turner (Greg Kinnear) who to get out of jail needs to work for a year, Tom gets a job at the post office and ends up in the dead letter area; which is where curiosity gets the better of him and he opens a Dear God letter. Tom accidently helps someone and suddenly he find himself viewed as the leader for a group of people who want to help the people who write the Dear God letters. Dear God is a comedy movie, and the only film clip I could find shows funny scenes. It is a good movie well worth watching








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