Touch Me

“Touch me, touch me, touch me!!!!!”She heard the words screaming to get out of her body. “Can’t you hear me Lord; I am asking you to touch me.” She stood there with her hand out in front of her as the latest spirit filled disciple moved around to give everyone a touch from God. “Touch me now.” She begged in her soul, not a sound coming from her lips. “Aren’t you listening to me Lord? I am right here. Don’t tell me you can’t see me as I am right in front of you.” She took a quick look to see where the disciple was, he was moving along towards her now. “Touch me now, Lord, I am ready for it now.” The disciple moved passed her without touching her “Touch me!” She cried from inside her soul as she began to question the Lord “How loud am I meant to shout these words?” As she waited the disciple began to speak “Do you really want it?” The words played over in her mind. “What do you mean do I really want it? I am saying ‘Touch me’ aren’t I?” The disciple spoke again “Are you hungry enough?” She felt annoyance fill her soul “Of Course I am hungry for your touch? I am yelling at you to touch me.” She finally felt the disciples hand upon her head “God Bless you my Child.” And then he was gone. She stood there in disbelief, she had expected more. The conference was over and all she had gotten was a God Bless you my child.

Disappointment filled her soul as she left the conference, disappointment stayed with her at her home with her husband and children. “What a waste of money and time” She though to herself, “anyone can say God Bless you.” She got into her normal routine. Nothing had changed; not her life, not her circumstances and definitely not her Spiritual gifting from God.

She was at school waiting to pick up her children when one of her good friend approached. “How was the conference on the weekend?” Her friend asked. She took a deep breathe and began to speak, she told her how the conference was based on Mark 15-18. She explained how before Jesus left his disciples the last time he had instructed them to go out in to the world and preach to good news and that the people who believe the good news would be able to do many things that Jesus did. She told her friend how the disciple believed that those who believe today will also be able to do what Jesus did like healing the sick. Her friend listened to what she told her. She stood silently watching her friend and then asked “Will you pray for me.” Without thinking she began to pray, using all the skills she had been taught over the weekend. Her friend turned to her after she had finished with tears in her eyes and said “Thank you.” Her friend started to walk away and then turned back to her and said “You understand that you really have a gift from God there don’t you?” and with that her friend was gone. She stood silently for a moment then she head a voice “You did not need a touch from one of my disciples; you needed a touch from me, God.”

"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.

Do you believe it when the Lord says:

There is nothing you could do to make me love you more.

Love is Patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It is not rude,
it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. (1 Cor 13:4-8a)

Do you believe that the Lord says
"There is nothing you could do to make me love you more?"

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Taking another look at our childhood heros.

Last night my daughter was practicing 'Believe it or not' for choir. The song 'Believe it or not'if you don't remember was the theme song for the TV show The Greatest American Hero. You have to laugh as you watch these clips. But then I found a classic scene from Wonder Woman. I loved Wonder Woman when I was a child. I wanted to be her. I loved watching the show as a child. But now that I have children and have seen the shows that they watch I really have to question this scene.

Would our children sit down week after week to watch this Television show?

Anything is Possible

Do you believe that anything is possible? I was sitting down last night giving my daughter ideas on how to make a speech to become mayor of the make believe city that her class was making. One of her slogans was anything is possible. As Parents we encourage our children that this is accurate and why should we not encourage our children. If you are like me and have three children; you would have discovered that each child has their own personal gifting and talents. One of our roles as parents is to encourage our children to make the best of these gifting and talents. Often as adults we need to encourage each other to begin to believe again that anything is possible.

God believes that anything is possible; all you have to do is look up different people in the bible like Gideon, Ruth, Rehab and Moses to see that they all did the impossible. The other interesting thing we need to look at when we look at these people is that God saw them differently to how they saw themselves. God does the same thing we do as parents with our kids, God tries to encourage us to develop our gifting and talents after all God gave them to us and God expects and wants us to develop them to become great people of this world in any role God has placed you in. Don’t let your circumstance and lifestyle stop you from becoming who God made you to be. Stop listening to other people and start to listen to God again – who knows you might suddenly find some one telling you that you are God’s Great Warrior.

His first Valentine Day Card

Do you remember your first crush? My son is eleven and has his first crush. Last year after talking to a female friend the same age, he decided to overcome his shyness of the opposite sex and tell the girl how he felt about her. Now my son has mild ADHD so discretion is not one of his strong points; so he decided to tell her how he felt the next time he saw her; which is what he literally did. In the middle of the class and in front of the whole class he yelled out to her as she was three meters away “--zy, I like you! Do you like me?” He was a little bit glum when he came home after she had told him that she only wanted to be friends.

Now my son was not impressed by any advice I was trying to give him, so I took the matter to his two older female cousins (16 and 19 years old) at a recent family advent. They started to happily give him advice on what he needed to do to get a girls attention. They told him to do something nice to get the girl’s attention like give her a card and as Valentine’s Day was just around the corner they encouraged him to give it a go. My son listened to the advice of his cousins and discussed the matter with his best mates and made up his mind to get her a card. Another one of his good mates decided that he should be the one to give her the card and not my son; not only was he going to give her a card but a box of chocolates as well. My son came home that day unsure if he should compete with his mate to give her a card for Valentine’s Day. My husband and I told him that he should give her a card knowing that this was a step to growing up and was far better than him yelling out in front of everyone that he likes a certain girl; not just for himself but the next girl he liked.

Now as Valentines Day is on a Sunday the decision was made to give her a card as he left school on Friday night. Thursday night we went together to the stores and found a card and some lip gloss as a small gift for her. We stood in front of all the cards and I have never realized how many Valentine Day cards have the word SEXY on them. My son shock his head at those cards and chose a funny card with the words written inside “I can’t keep my eyes off of you” as those words described how he felt about the Izzy. To his credit my son he gave her card on Friday at school – apparently she already knew that she was getting one. He is not sure what she thought as his friend who was going to also give her a card told him that she did not like it. But my son has now told a girl that he likes her in a gentler manner and knows what he needs to do when he decided to do it again.

Happy Valentines Day to everyone.

Watching her Sleep

He ran his finger gently along her check and she moved in her sleep. He loved watching her sleep. He had to admit he was fascinated by her. He loved the way her clenched fist was laying next to her head. He ran his hand softly over her short dark hair marveling at each strand. She started to move and for a brief second; one eye fluttered open then closed as if she knew whose presence she was in. He stood back for a moment waiting to see if she would wake up and look for him but she continued sleeping. He glanced quickly at his watch and realized that he had been watching her for about twenty minutes. He didn’t care as he felt his eyes searching to catch another glimpse of her. Her other arm started to move and suddenly both arms were above her head as she started to stretch her perfect body. Her eyes were now open and her body moved to free herself from the bedding. Now he could see one of her beautiful legs. Now awake and alert he began to realize that she could sense his presence and fear began to grip him. Her head moved to look in his direction as though she was waiting for him to do something. In his mind he heard the words “It will be okay, just be gentle with her.” playing over and over in his mind.

He moved to be nearer to her and he could see that she did indeed know that he was there. He reached out and picked her up like the nurses had shown him, and finally his most prized possession was now in his arms. He had waited a while to do this; he had told his wife that he would do it in his own time. She felt so good to be in his arms. He sat down to let the moment soak into his memories. His daughters face was looking at him and he realized that she had his nose, pride and love swept through him and he knew that he would never be the same again. He heard the door of the room open and his wife enter the room. She stopped as she took in the sight of the two of them; he glanced up to say something to his wife and realized that tears were making a way down her check. He started to stand up, “No, don’t get up; I want to take a picture of the two of you.” She said. He posed with his daughter for a number of pictures, the three of them lost in their own world. “Ohhh…. Honey will you look at that” said a voice he recognized as his mother. He glanced at the door and saw his parents there, he moved his daughter in his arms so that his parents could get a better glance at his beautiful daughter. His father smiled as he took in the sight of his son’s new family “Ohhh…. The joys of a being a new parent” he stated with a laugh as his son beaming face looked back at him. “Ohhh…. Yes indeed” thought his son as he glanced back down at his newborn daughter in his arms “Yes indeed”.

From heaven above God took in the sight of the father with his newborn daughter in his arms, and remember the joy he felt as he took in the first sight of each of his children. To God everyone of his children are special.

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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