“Mums are like buttons. They hold things together.”

I don’t know if you have heard that before.

Not only kids but we adults also need help to hold things together.

Our personal life is a challenge.

We are challenged to hold things together in our marriages.

And there are our families of course.

Question: What is the oldest human institution?

Answer: Marriage, the Family.

Who performed the first marriage and where was the first marriage performed?

God performed the first marriage and the first marriage was performed in the Garden of Eden.

But man sinned against God. The family has been in trouble from the time man sinned against God. The family is in serious trouble now.

Please read the posts on Family Violence on this blog.

The Bible tells us about the Lord Jesus Christ and in his letter to the Colossians the apostle Paul is writing:

“He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.” (Colossians 1:17)

Remember that in the Lord Jesus Christ all things hold together.

JUNE 2014

1.  Sunday, June 1, 2014:

WINTER 2014

2.  June 7, 2014:

1976: McDonald’s arrives in New Zealand

I am old enough to receive a FREE cup of coffee at McDonald’s.

3.  Saturday, June 21, 2014:

Shortest Day, Solstice (Sun over Tropic of Cancer) at 10.52 pm

AT THE BEACH

“He was just a man.”

That was said at the funeral of a great leader who was highly respected in every way by many people.

I liked that and it came again to my mind when I read yesterday what two people wrote in a magazine about someone who did not die but was also in leadership for quite some time at a certain place but took up another position somewhere else.

What the two people wrote in that magazine was only good. At least I could not find anything else.

I used to work in Thailand for a number of years and when I finished working there  a Thai leader said, “BANG SING KO DI, BANG SING KO MAI DI!”

And he was right, “some things were good and some things were not good.”

 A man who had courage spoke those words.

“The glory of the gospel is this, that it is concerned about us and not about our circumstances.” – D. Martyn Lloyd – Jones

I read again chapter 19 “The Peace of God” in the book SPIRITUAL DEPRESSION by D. M. Lloyd – Jones. The above quote is from  that chapter.

“Happy Mother’s Day”

“Mothers plant the seeds of love that help us bloom forever.”

“Mothers hold their children’s hands a while and heir hearts forever.”

“Grandmas make the world a grander place.”

“Mums are like buttons. They hold things together.”