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 It has now been over a year since I last posted here - the biggest change? My little baby is now a toddler. So lately I have been very much immersed in the great yet rewarding challenge that is parenting a toddler. One great blessing of this process is that I find that more often than not, I am also parenting myself. I have had a lot of conversations about this with another friend who has a toddler and we agreed that what and how we teach our kids is so revealing about ourselves. We teach them to be patient, to speak kindly, not to get angry when things don't go their way. And yet all the while, we realise that we ourselves struggle with these things - sometimes on a much bigger scale!  This is one of the joys of Christian parenting. While we have the incredible honour and responsibility of bringing up our children in God's ways and we hold a unique authority over them for that purpose, we also are God's children, and we are being sanctified alongside them and dealing with...

  "I'm so grateful I live in a world where there are Octobers." Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables In this quote, Anne is rejoicing that in (Canadian) October she can see the changing season of Autumn and all of the beauty that it brings. The Seasons are one of my favourite things. They are such a good reminder to us that there is a time and season for everything under heaven (Ecclesiastes 3). God has seasons and time (day and night, hours, weeks, months, years!) - all in order and structure to show his sovereignty. From the beginning of Creation, God set all these things in order.  As a family, we are currently in the middle of many different levels of seasons: Half a year into a three-year season of living in Australia (and everything that goes with the season of living as a student and a stay at home parent) Almost at the end of one semester before a season of mid-year break  A season of raising a baby  And just practically, beginning a season of extra cold winter...