Following on from yesterday’s blog when I talked about feeling like an outsider, I thought it might be helpful to give further details of how it feeling like an Outsider makes people feel and act. So what does it feel like being an Outsider? Here’s a few of the feelings I know I’ve felt: alone, [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Alone and Scared
Posted: April 20, 2010 in lifeTags: alone, church, emotion, God, outsider, Sara Luneack, scared, upset
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Outsider
Posted: April 19, 2010 in family, friendship, life, workTags: belief, church, different, exclude, outsider, religion, Take That
Have you ever felt like an outsider? How did it make you feel? It’s not a nice experience at all is it. I heard a good analogy on the TV a few days ago: It compared feeling like an outsider to a sweet shop where everyone else is inside the sweet shop able to help themselves [...]
Child Abuse
Posted: April 18, 2010 in Health, lifeTags: abuse, child, cry, difficult, God, help, hurt
I find it very difficult to comprehend how anyone could ever want to intentionally hurt a child – they are small defenceless human being who trust those around them for all they need. Food, water, milk, warmth, shelter, protection and most of all love – these are just a few of the essential things every [...]
Brothers and Sisters
Posted: April 17, 2010 in family, friendship, loveTags: brother, different, fight, friend, kid, sister, Timothy, U2
Do you have any brothers or sisters? If you have, do you get on with them? Did you get on well with them when you were kids? I don’t have any brothers or sisters, I’m an only child, so I obviously don’t know what it’s like to have brothers or sisters to fight with, play [...]
A Mother’s Prayer
Posted: April 16, 2010 in family, life, love, religionTags: child, God, mom, mother, Mum, prayer
A Mother’s Prayer Dear Lord, it’s such a hectic day, With little time to stop and pray. For Life’s been anything but calm, Since You called me to be a mom. Running errands, matching socks, Building dreams with building blocks. Cooking, cleaning and finding shoes, And other stuff that children loose. Fitting lids on bottled [...]
Raising Children
Posted: April 15, 2010 in family, life, religionTags: children, God, influence, Kathryn Scott, M S Lowndes, teach
Those who are parents or work with children, have an awesome responsibility to teach the children all they need to have a fantastic future. Doesn’t this all fit in with what I’ve been talking about the last few days…influence! We must ensure we are a positive influence on our children, and make sure we teach [...]
Influence Me!
Posted: April 14, 2010 in lifeTags: change, encourage, happy, influence, mentor, Steven Curtis Chapman, worthless
We’ve been thinking about influences the last few days (Looking or Not and Your Influence), but today I want to focus your thoughts on those who have influenced you. Who have been or are your biggest influences? For each person you’ve identified as an influence in your life, consider the following: Do they know how [...]
Your Influence
Posted: April 13, 2010 in lifeTags: blog, dictionary, family, friend, influence, opportunity, teach, work
Following on from yesterday’s blog post (Looking or Not), I’ve been think about “influence”, and in particular who we influence. Firstly, what is the dictionary definition of influence: an effect of one person or thing on another the power of a person or thing to have such an effect power or sway resulting from ability, [...]
Looking or Not
Posted: April 12, 2010 in life, religionTags: adult, care, child, children, friend, God, influence, parent, Steven Curtis Chapman, watch
This is a message every adult should read because children are watching you and doing as you do, not as you say. Who does so much for others, but thinks that no-one ever sees? Each of us – parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher, friend - influences the life of a child. How will you touch the [...]
Why is it we spend so much time looking forward to holidays, or time of work and when they arrive, they’re over so very quickly? We’ve been off since Good Friday (2nd April) and go back to work tomorrow. Before our week off, we made a lot of plans of all the things round the [...]
