Thursday 29 September 2011
What it's here already?
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Eight characteristics of a healthy family
Eight characteristics of a healthy family
1. The members of the household are committed to one another.
The family, therefore, is a unit with members dedicated to living their lives in support of one another with unquestioned loyalty.
2. A healthy family spends time together.
A wholesome, healthy family believes that time together cannot have quality without sufficient quantity.
3. A healthy family enjoys open, frequent communication.
No question is inappropriate, no opinion is disrespected, and no subject is considered off limits. Important, life-determining subjects are naturally intermingled with the mundane.
4. The healthy family turns inward during times of crisis.
Members of wholesome, healthy families work through difficulties together. A crisis brings them closer because they look within the family for strength rather than looking to something outside.
5. Members of a healthy family express affirmation and encouragement often.
"Good job!" "I admire you for that!" "You mean a lot to me!" Notice that affirmation and encouragement are different. You affirm who people are, while you encourage what people do. Both are necessary to help others discover who they are and what they do well, which builds a strong sense of personal security. You are not born with a well-defined sense of self; you discover yourself through the influence of those important to you.
6. The members of a healthy family share a spiritual commitment.
The family members are bound in unity by their shared relationship with God, and they learn to nurture it as a result of mutual encouragement.
7. Each person in a healthy household trusts the others and values the trust he has earned.
This trust is built upon mutual respect and a dedication to truth.
8. The members of a healthy family enjoy freedom and grace.
Each has the freedom to try new things, think different thoughts, embrace values and perspectives that may be new to the family, and even challenge old ways of doing things. All of this is built upon grace. Everyone has the freedom to fail, to be wrong, and to have faults and weaknesses without fear of rejection or condemnation. In a grace-based environment, failure is kept in perspective so that members of the family have enough confidence to recover, grow, and achieve.
Teen Night Idea
If you saw Fireproof, Facing the Giants or Flywheel - all from Sherwood Films...this is another major motion picture release due this weekend. It's about 4 police officers, all fathers who take a stand to be better dads, making pledges with their famillies. It's appropriate for tweens and teens and would be a great outing for your youth group!!! Enjoy
Finally...
I did it!!! After setting up my site, then forgetting my password - hotmail regretted to inform me that I have not supplied enough information for them to give it to me. I had to set up a new one, I even tried twice!! Stupid memory loss...Anyhow, I now have my blog. http://www.watermelonkids.blogspot.com/ It is not my original title as I obviously cannot use my first one, but alas it will do. It includes two of my favourite things...kids and watermelon.
Because of my circumstances, I find myself with lots of time. I use much of it looking for things to do with my little friends. I would make a great mom if I could just adopt...but that is another story...Anyhow, I don't cook so you won't find any recipes here, but I do crafts, scrapbook, take pictures etc. I love to share stuff my friends do, so if you have anything you want posted...I love, and I mean love anything to do with ORGANIZING. I often post great Sunday School or VBS stuff I've used or borrowed in the past. And finally, if it will help you, humour you, humble you or even honour you...I want to blog about it...Enjoy
Because of my circumstances, I find myself with lots of time. I use much of it looking for things to do with my little friends. I would make a great mom if I could just adopt...but that is another story...Anyhow, I don't cook so you won't find any recipes here, but I do crafts, scrapbook, take pictures etc. I love to share stuff my friends do, so if you have anything you want posted...I love, and I mean love anything to do with ORGANIZING. I often post great Sunday School or VBS stuff I've used or borrowed in the past. And finally, if it will help you, humour you, humble you or even honour you...I want to blog about it...Enjoy
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