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Warm Fuzzies

What are “warm fuzzies?”

They are “imparting, promoting, or preserving warm feelings; to feel or cause to feel with kindly feelings!”
This is the theme I chose for the June edition of WiseLink. With winter starting on June 1st, I thought about the warm fuzzies that we all crave when the cold starts to bite. Where we live, it can get very cold!
So preparations have commenced to be ready when the cold weather bites. I have tried out some new soup recipes, which have been very yummy. Checked out the winter woollies and made sure they haven’t shrunk in the cupboard during summer. We have made sure that we have plenty of firewood so the house is kept warm.

Then my mind wandered back to my childhood and what we got up to when winter came. With the nights closing in quickly, it meant that we couldn’t spend the time outside after school that we enjoyed doing. There were the puddles of water after a rain that we played in and got wet on the way home from school. Mum pegged the clothes on the verandah line because they wouldn’t dry out in the rain. Netball games were played in the wet. Indoor games were played when it was too cold and wet to go outside. Other memories are the frost on the lawn, the home-made pasty slice and the casseroles that Mum made for us during winter.

These are my warm fuzzies - they bring back wonderful memories or bring comfort when things around are looking quite dreary.

When I worked in a care giving agency in Queensland, we knew that when the day was wet, cold and cloudy, our number of contacts would increase quite markedly.

So it is quite often in our Christian life.

When all is going well, we don’t stop to think about times past, but live for the “Now”. When things start going wrong, we go into a winter of our soul. We start to think of God and how He might take away the hurts and strain and stress, and make things run smoothly and happily again.

What we need is to remember that no matter what season we are in our lives, God is there with us. He never leaves us on our own but walks beside us always.

“Take my hand precious Lord,
Lift me up, don’t let me fall”

These are words to a song that we sang with our son when He was growing up, especially when he was sad. It still comes back to me when I am feeling down, reminding me that God is with me, wanting to give me the warm fuzzies. He takes us through hard times to help us help others and to teach us to rely completely on Him.

Wise Link June 2007

The June Edition of WISELink is now available online.

A Day of and for Thankfulness

This month we celebrate Mothers Day! It is celebrated many different and varied ways. For some they visit, others send a card, or make a phone call, buy a gift or perhaps a mixture of these to express our heartfelt thanks for all our mothers have done for us throughout our lives. For those whose mothers are no longer alive, it is perhaps a visit to the cemetery, or to wear a flower in her honour.

The day is one when we laud and honour them. But with all the accolades there is also a responsibility to share this outpouring of love shown on this day every day of the year. To quote my own mother “Mother’s Day is every day of the year.”

As it has been said that we should experience Christmas and Easter everyday of the year and remember what Christ did for us, so should we remember our mother every day.

Mother’s Day for me is a day of thankfulness that I was chosen to become a mother. Along with the privilege comes responsibility to raise our children as good citizens of this world. This is a life-long task, we never stop loving and wanting the best for our children.

There is also the love of the Lord that we must teach them by living the life that honours Him and by teaching our children by example about the Lord and His claim upon their lives. We cannot leave the responsibility to others such as school and the church.

Let’s spare a thought for those who find themselves in dysfunctional families. It must be very hard for them as their families gather together at this time. For relinquishing mothers, separated mothers, grandmothers whose grand children do not have regular contact with them due to a marriage breakdown. Great sensitivity needs to be exercised with those who have or are experiencing broken relationships with their mothers at this time.

For me this year it will be my first Mothers Day without my mum, it is going to be hard, but never has a day gone by that I haven’t thought of my mum in some way or other. She was my mentor, friend, my example to follow and most of all my encourager.

It will be different this year but I will have a great Mother’s Day and I trust that every mother who reads this, has or will have had, a Happy Mother’s Day too.

Wise Link May 2007

The May Edition of WISELink is now available online.

Wise Link April 2007

The April Edition of WISELink is now available online.

Wise Link March 2007

The March Edition of WISELink is now available online.

Wise Link February 2007

The February Edition of WiseLink is now available on line.

resources

We are starting to put together a lot of different resources that will be available to find online here and at the Office. If you have something that you wish to have include, please email it to: the wise link at gmail dot com (with subject line of Wise Link Resources) or by snail mail to Attention: Wise Link Resources, 171 Main North Road, Nailsworth SA 5083.

cheers
the web chick

Wise Link December 2006

The December Edition of WiseLink is now available on line.