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3 Parenting Mistakes to Avoid with Your Toddler

Despite the moniker “terrible twos”, that period of testing and searching for independence can come as early as 15 months and last up until three years old. Navigating this period of development successfully requires, patience, patience, a little more patience and then just a little more patience. However, setting boundaries during this time will set you up for a life time of positive interaction with your child. This is the age where you’re setting the ground work for authority in your home. It’s not a now or never deal, but parents who are not consistent and firm with their toddlers, … Continue reading →

Laziness -part 7- in Work

Laziness in our work situation presents a bad example to those outside the Christian faith. It can also cause severe problems. If David had been doing his work as king and leading his armies, 2 Samuel 11:1 instead of lounging at home, he would not have been in a position to see Bathsheba and events might not have taken the course they did. Think of the pain and suffering that might have been averted for him, his family and his country, if he had kept his mind on his job.Our laziness in the workplace might also affect others. Some people … Continue reading →

Laziness- part 6- in Work

Today as we near the end of my blogs relating to laziness, I want you to stop and think about your attitude to work. Do you see it as a chore and do just enough work so you don’t get fired but you know you are not working to your full capabilities? Do you slack off with extra long lunch hours and tea breaks or work in a slipshod manner and not giving of your best? Do you waste your bosses’ time with phone calls and conversations not related to work? Or maybe you belong to the other extreme and … Continue reading →

Laziness part 4- In Service and Church Life

Moving house and church can be a time to take stock and review what activities God would have us involved in, so we found. Maybe you have too? Or do you think you’ve done your bit and it’s time to retire from God’s service? Since my husband retired from work, which prompted our move, we could have used it as an excuse to retire from serving God in our church as well. But God’s work doesn’t have an age when we must or should retire. So we knew we needed to be doing something but what? Instead of jumping in, … Continue reading →

Laziness – Part 3- In Our Relationship With God.

Laziness in our relationship with God sometimes seems easy to fall into. We can tend to take God for granted. Have a look at this article about the way one woman is feeling about her relationship with the Lord. But before you jump in to condemn her, can you honestly say your have never felt this way? I know I can’t. At one stage I remember thinking that being a Christian was all too hard. What stopped me from opting out? I couldn’t contemplate the alternative. Recently someone mentioned to me about the doubts that have crept in as life … Continue reading →

Laziness – part 1 – in marriage

Laziness can be a seductive but deadly trait in just about all areas of life. It can be detrimental in our marriages, in our relationship with God, in parenting, in our service for God and our church life, in friendships and other relationships, and in our work situations. Starting with marriage, over the next few days I’m going to write about each of these areas of life. Marriage – It is easy when we have been married a while it become lazy and complacent and not bother to look attractive for them or to not make the effort to spend … Continue reading →

The Curse of Inertia

What’s inertia, you say? An object a rest tends to stay at rest. An object in motion tends to stay in motion. That, more or less, is inertia. I have a hard time with inertia some days. Inertia makes me not want to leave the house. Inertia makes me turn down invitations from friends. Those days, I am an object at rest and I want to stay at rest. Today I fought off inertia to go have lunch with some friends at a pretty park in Portland. I really wanted to stay home. The morning was off to a bad … Continue reading →

Active Words: A Fantastic Program and a Real Time Saver

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I have found a program that will make your life, and your job, twice as easy as it is right now. A bold claim, but I stand behind it. Active Words is a program I have been using for years now (two? three? something like that) and I am at the point now that if I have to get along without it because I’m on someone else’s computer, it just about kills me. Or at least tortures me to the point where I wish I was dead. Close enough. AW is a bit hard to explain, but I’ll try. First, … Continue reading →

Creative Discipline

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Each child is a masterpiece from God. Aside from some guidelines we’ve been given in the Bible, there is really no one-hundred percent reliable manual for raising these little ones. I believe every child requires creative parenting. Prior to having children of my own, I worked in a preschool. I really felt it was great preparation for my children. While my husband and I were waiting to be parents, we read books, and took classes. We were determined to be prepared for whatever came our way. I chuckle now because once our first son was placed with us, we were … Continue reading →

Why Do You Go to Work?

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Why do you go to work? The first answer that comes to your mind is probably, “Well, for the money.” Is that the only reason that you work? When I went to work full-time in the professional world, my primary motivation was money. However, I soon realized that receiving a pay check was not a meaningful enough reason for me. Is a lucrative career enough reason for devoting forty hours a week for 40-50 years to a place away from home and family? The answer for me was “No.” I soon committed to God that my job wouldn’t simply be … Continue reading →