With Saint Patrick’s Day just past I was reflecting on a magazine article I read quite some time ago about the the Saint himself, Patrick. Alas I could not find the original article but let me recount some points I remember (that I found rather fascinating at the time).
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It’s scary to make new friends.
Micah has been in school for 6 weeks now and he’s doing just fine. I on the other hand am having a hard time transitioning to being a school mum.
He is a bloke I knew from a soup kitchen once.
He changed his name by deed poll to show his concern for the environment. For the sake of anonymity I will call him N.
When he found out I had been overseas to visit family he gently chided me for the effect on the environment of the plane travel.
One night, to save electricity, he turned everything off at the power point when we left, including the fridge which held four shelves of frozen soup.
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I projected this year to be a year of no travelling overseas when I was making plans in 2018. It was supposed to be a quiet one but I had to make a little exception because my good friend was getting married in Bangkok. Our friendship goes way back to primary school when we attended grade two at Bangkok Adventist Church School (BACS) together. I also invited my workmate to come along for the second time. He enjoyed it so much last time that he also brought his parents along this time round.
Marie Kondo the clean-up queen from Japan has been taking the world and making it a tidier, happier place one Kon-Mari step at a time. If you are not familiar with this phenomenon, a quick google search will reveal that she has made a fortune on helping people tidy up their homes.
When her show came to Netflix I couldn’t resist jumping on the organising bandwagon. I watched as she thanked the home in a reverent prayer-like fashion. Then each person was asked to pull all their clothes out and make a big pile. Once they had pulled every single item out then they would go through each one, decide which one ‘sparked joy’ and then discarded or kept the item. If the item was discarded, it was also thanked for its service. This process was repeated for each category.
I was intrigued. Imagine if we took the time to examine our hearts like this!
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Working day in, day out, with primary school age children frequently brings me to trot out some well worn, yet undeniably true, proverbs, sayings or statements. I say ‘undeniably true’, yet a nine year old can deny anything. What I’m getting at are those statements such as ‘The Golden Rule’.
