HARAKEKE – FLAX

“It is a holy Bible,

written by a holy God,

to make us a holy people.” –

Allister Smith, The Privilege of all Believers

HARAKEKE – FLAX

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E. E. Cummings

The most wasted of all days is one without READING THE BIBLE and PRAYER! – W. D.

“Call Dad this Father’s Day,” says the advertisement in the Paper Plus Father’s Day publication “My Dad, my Hero”.

“Don’t Forget Dad”

The ad encourages children to buy a Skinny Mobile for $69.  If they buy the Skinny S50 Mobile they receice a Free SIM card and $20 Free Skinny Credit.

I cannot remember my Dad. He did not come back from the second big war. I don’t even know where he died and where he is buried. I remember nothing at all!

But I remember the day when I connected with my Heavenly Father. From the time I had a relationship with my Heavenly Father I called on him.

At the present time I know my Heavenly Father already for more than fifty years and I need not to be encouraged to call on him. There are days when I cry to him for help several times in my prayers. 

And the best thing is that I don’t need a Mobile to get in touch with my Heavenly Father nor anything else.

A SMILE

“The shortest distance between two people is a smile.” – Victor Borge

In the publication called “newborn2five,” March 2013, parents are introducing  their 2012’s babies. The name of the baby is given, the date of birth, the weight and there is also a brief message.

“We loved you even before we met you. You made our fmily whole – a beautiful blessing. Lots of love, Mum and Dad.” That is one of the messages.

When I read “We loved you even before we met you,” I remembered more things that happened “before”.

In the Bible, in the book of Jeremiah, we are reading about the call of the prophet.

In Jeremiah 1:5 the Lord does not only say to Jeremiah, ‘”Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,…'” but he says also ‘”before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.'”

And this is what Paul writes in the Bible to the saints in Ephesus. Right at the beginning of the letter he writes “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.”

“Earthly Dad’s love their babies before they are born and I am glad that my heavenly Father chose me before the creation of the world.