Symbols: mountain Gen. 12:1-3 1 Yahweh said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your kindred and your father’s house for a country which I shall show you;2 and I shall make you a great nation, I shall bless you and make your name famous; you are to be a blessing!3 I shall bless those who […]
The Jesse Tree ~ December 5: Abraham Read More »
Symbols: ark, rainbow Gen. 6:5-8, 13-22; 7:17, 23, 24; 8:1, 6-22 5 Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long. 6 Yahweh regretted having made human beings on earth and was grieved at heart. 7 And Yahweh said, ‘I shall
The Jesse Tree ~ December 4: Noah Read More »
Symbol: Serpent with apple Gen: 3:1-7 and 23-24 1 Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, ‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?’ 2 The woman answered the snake, ‘We
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Symbol: Tree Gen: 2:7-9, 18-24 7 Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being.8 Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned.9 From the
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Symbol: earth Gen. 1:1-31; 2:1-4 1 In the beginning God created heaven and earth. 2 Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters. 3 God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. 4 God saw that light was good,
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The secular world finds prayer provocative and confrontational. Only recently a volunteer, praying outside the Abortion clinic in Albury was attacked in an unprovoked assault and had his jaw broken. His crime: praying. Donna Maria Cooper O’Boyle recounts her own experiences of the provocative nature of prayer in her book Rooted in
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Forming good habits is always difficult. Forming good prayer habits can, at times, seem impossible, especially when you have small children. Fitting prayer, quality family prayer, into the busyness of parenting can be a challenge but it is worth it! Here are some tips for encouraging children, from a young age, to pray: Start
7 Tips For Encouraging Your Children To Pray The Rosary Read More »
We go through a lot of Rosary beads in our house. Those beads connected by chains are routinely pulled apart by duelling siblings, so much so that I’ve invested in beading pliers just to fix them. Plastic Rosary beads last until the beads start disintegrating under the constant chewing of younger children and even
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This book appealed to me instantly. From the very introduction the author present the reasoning behind her book, and the humility that almost prevented her from writing it in the first place. Barbara Curtis’ style is open, warm and engaging and never takes on a holier-than-thou tone. In fact, as she shares her own
Book Review: Raising God-First Kids In A Me-First World Read More »
– Affiliate Link- For the past few years I have noticed as we neared Advent, how much the Elf on the Shelf phenomenon dominated my social media spaces. I have to admit, that in amongst writing and scheduling for three websites and their accompanying Facebook pages, I spend a lot of my working time
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