Sports Day
For the fourth year running, my team finished second in the Parents-Teachers Race.
This year though i must admit i was somewhat culpable, having lost control of the exercise ball towards the end of my lap.
Oh well, at least it’s a familiar position.
Crab Flower Club
i thought it was an excellent production, especially in its blend [...]
Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category
My Third Term
Posted in Musings on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My, You Do Express Yourselves Day
Posted in Musings on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So Express Yourself Day came and went.
Perhaps it was the division of the Assembly, one featuring the Lower Secondary and the other the Upper Secondary.
Perhaps it was the general dolour that has descended upon the school since the H1N1 measures took effect.
Perhaps it just wasn’t as novel.
But i thought it lacked a little something.
Maybe it’s just [...]
My Cedar Lit Up!
Posted in Musings on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thank you, O gracious Father, Lord of all heaven and earth, for the lack of rain in the evening.
Thank you for Esther, Audra, Rachael, Melinda, Laura, Candy, Jasmine and Monica.
Thank you for 4M (you are all so, so amazing! i feel so incredibly blessed! you came and you dressed up!).
Thank you for the Confinement cast [...]
My Thanks
Posted in Musings on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Father, thank You for 4M’s response during SEL.
Thank You for their earnest, sweet and gentle hearts.
Thank You for sustaining me through another Monday.
Thank You showing me each day in different ways how precious a gift Josiah truly is.
Thank You for Your word. Your word is truth.
My Thanks
Posted in Musings on January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Thank You, Father, for the enthusiasm of 4Madness.
Thank You for the fun-ness of 4I.
Thank You for the self-sacrificial love of Joanne.
Thank You for the purity of Josiah’s smiles.
Thank You for old friends.
Thank You for lifting me out of the Slough of Despond.
My Broken Offering
Posted in Musings on January 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There are days when you wonder what’s the point of it all.
What is the point of teaching others how to use language accurately, to communicate effectively, to think critically?
What is the point of teaching a play some dead guy wrote four hundred years ago?
What is the point of teaching someone how to analyse a poem [...]
My Unworthy Self
Posted in Musings on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Father, thank You for the privilege of speaking to Your people about spiritual friendship and accountability.
Thank You for helping me to speak Your truth and Your heart through my unclean and unworthy lips and tongue.
Thank You for choosing time and again to work in, with and through us, broken jars of clay that we [...]
My Remembrance
Posted in Musings on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thank You, Abba, for Your still, small voice.
Thank You for deigning to speak to and through me, wretched man that i am.
Thank You for Your inexorable grace and love.
Thank You for the mighty Cross.
My Humbled Heart
Posted in Musings on January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Father, thank You for all that you bless us so richly with.
There is no cause for us to boast in ourselves.
For what talent, what intelligence, what ability do we possess that we did not receive from You before our conception?
For what effort, what discipline, what diligence did we exert that came not from Your hand, [...]
My Wow
Posted in Musings on January 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Father, I give thanks to You for 4I; for their excellent attitude in completing the blog assignment.
Thank You for Josiah’s pure and exuberant smiles.
Thank You for the way he nestles so comfortably and securely in my arms.
Thank You for Joanne who is a fantastic mother and a model helpmeet.
Thank you for many, many blessings.
My heart [...]
