Stream of Conciousness Sunday- The Journey

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Beautiful Garden

It has been a really long while since I joined in on this meme. A lot has happened since I dropped participating in this meme. However with the start of the new year, 2013 I am intending to raise my consciousness and embark on a different journey.

This time round the focus would be more on building up my spirituality and going all out to improve the overall development of the kids. My aim this year is to equip them with life skills which will see them through their adulthood. Skills which are not really focused nowadays in the family like earning your keep, helping out in the household, social/moral values and building up one’s spirituality.

Many kids take a lot of things for granted and want instant gratification. They have been given the chance to fulfill their desires without even working hard for it. That shouldn’t be the way and I don’t want any of my kids to think that everything in life should be served to them on a silver platter.

Like the beautiful garden in the picture above it can only be as captivating if the gardener constantly takes effort to care for the plant and prune in regularly. I hope that with my regular “pruning” the kids will turn out to be as eye catching as the flowers above.

It is not an easy journey to be on and I’m glad that I have the support from R and the grandparents as they know that it will be extremely beneficial for the kids to go along on this journey.

What journey are you currently embarking on?

January 18, 2013

Weekend Reflections: Being Grateful

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Flash flooding in Kuantan

Living in Singapore we are sheltered by many natural disasters which are happening in the region. We are being sheltered by Malaysia and Indonesia and these two countries take the brunt of typhoons, tsunamis and earthquakes that happen in this area.

The kids were really shocked to see the road next to the hotel flooded through after it has been raining heavily for a few hours. As you can see from the picture above the water level was up to half of the car and the motorbikes that were parked were overturned by the flood waters. We had actually planned to go to the mall for lunch but since the road was not passable we had to settle for cup noodles which we purchase the night before. Luckily I do store extra food in our hotel room in case any of the kids do get hungry so they didn’t starve that afternoon.

That day the kids learned first hand how inconvenient it can be we experience natural disasters like floods. The among of damage that nature can inflict on our lives in an instant. We should be grateful that we are safe and don’t need to experience such natural disasters on a regular basis. The more we should give praise to the LORD for his blessings.

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