It is only a small card, the size of a bank card. On one side is written “Your kids make memories everyday.”

And a very interesting picture also. I like it. A father kneeling, with both of his hands on the floor,  and four kids trying to get on his back. Two are making it alright, but number three has his feet on the ground and number four is on the back of number three. What a picture.

On the reverse side is written: “How they remember you will last their lifetime……” What a message! I picked the card up at the local Women’s Refuge Office.

But parents have also memories of their children when they were small. And those memories will also last a lifetime….

I remember the time spent with them, especially the rides in the car. We did not not only spend nights in motels along the coasts of Northland but also nights in tents.

Matauri Bay was one of our camping grounds.

I remember also the Christian Schools they attended and the Sunday Schools. (We used to be workers with the United Maori Mission from the end of 1980 until the end of 2004 in Kaikohe)

One of these days I will ask them how they remember me.

How do I want to be remembered by them? I want to be remembered by them as the one who helped them to know the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour!

I don’t really know how to say it.

But sometimes people are very friendly and very kind and really nice.

Sometimes they are not kind at all, they are not really nasty – but almost nasty. You know what I am talking about!

Now, I find it easier to ‘cope’ with the second group of people described. Does it not do somethimng to you, when people are really friendly to you and nice?

I read the following some time ago. (Does it not fit in with what I wrote just now?):

“I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force…….My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.” – Og Mandino. How I like that!

Read also what the  Bible, the Word of the Living God says in First Corinthians 13:4-7!!