Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.1Isn’t it interesting that a compilation of practical wisdom begins a chapter with parental advise? Parents are the primary source of a child’s character formation. A mother’s nurturing or lack […]
The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you.1 Parents carry a heavy burden. More often, a misguided load. For to us is given the responsibility to raise up children—let me qualify, not as the world dictates, but children who know God personally and have a healthy fear of […]
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, . . .1 Each one of us is unique. We were fashioned in a particular way for a specific purpose. Upon birth we have a bent or natural abilities that need to be harnessed and developed into strengths. Through observation and […]
To test the waters, we started dipping-our-feet in a new ministry—the Heart of Parenting. Not that we are experts; but simply we have more years tucked away. Parenting is a never-ending learning as each child is unique and goes through seasons-of-life differently. For certain though, we know where to point the new daddies and mommies. […]
As a certified Transformational Coach, I have learned that one of the fundamental habits is to show up fully present—giving your full attention. God chose Moses to lead his chosen people Israel. The first five books of the Bible1 gives an account of God’s covenant; the rescue of the Jews from slavery; his laws and […]
“Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”1 At the onset God had assured Abram, “Look, count the stars!” [PAV—Paraphrased Author’s Version] . . . “So shall your offspring be.” And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.2 But the following promises were not completely […]
Who wouldn’t love excellent food? The key to exquisite cuisine is the right choice of ingredients. Far be it that a superlative chef would serve a viand that had been mixed with an inferior or a rotten ingredient. He puts his name and reputation at stake. In the same breath, Paul warns, Do not be […]
I was amused with a feed in a social media; it read, “May we reset 2020; I was not ready!” Repeatedly, His Word, church history (traditions), reason, and experience give witness—man cannot escape both physical and spiritual laws. But we insist to do things our way. We reverse the process: experience, reason, history, His Word […]
One of the tools that help me understand Scripture is repetition. It was the Hebrew writer’s style to convey and emphasize importance. Interestingly, 1 John, Chapters 1 and 2, mentions “writing” or “write” twelve times. What benefits are there in writing? One, writing is a reminder;1 two, it is a deterrent;2 three, it is an […]
Tuesday, last week I had a weird incident. I got lost as to what day it was (Yup! It happens occasionally). Making light of it, I rationalized thinking that it must be the simultaneous occurrence of crisis globally at the start of 2020—the Australian bush fire; Taal volcano’s eruption; Africa’s locust plague; a senator’s visa […]
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.1 I enjoy travelling with my family to new places and exploring. I guess it is my curiosity for anything new for whenever I explore nature, I am awed by the beauty and splendor of His creation from the great expanse, the […]
I wonder who would have stayed with the topic and bothered to read had my title been Death? I attended a wake over the weekend. It had the customary trimmings of glistening wreaths from well-wishers and the artistic layout with the portraits of the dead—a glimpse of his story. Also, being looped were snippets of […]
The time to deploy is when your child reaches maturity as a young adult. This is a difficult stage not so for the child but more so for the parent. Guilty! We have certain standards that we adhere to and would want our children to embrace. To this end, we have been nurturing and protective. […]
The pre-teens to the teenage years are the most volatile stage for a child. This stage is termed the “tween” years (ages 9-12) and the adolescence (ages 13-19), respectively. The stage that requires unconditional love and total acceptance. It is the period of transition between childhood and adulthood. It includes some big changes—to the body, […]
Instruct. This is the age of reason. The season when children start to verbalize their thoughts, to read, to write, and be physically coordinated. This is the moment that we exposed Johanan then Jemimah to various activities that encouraged the love for learning (Also, we were intentional about encouraging the older brother to help the […]
The toddler years. What do I mean by hone? To hone the character. At the earliest stage, caring for your baby would have created an imprint of you as parent. “Instinctive behaviours have evolved favouring the mother–infant dyad based on fundamental processes of neurological development, including oral tactile imprinting and latchment. Latchment is the first […]
For the sake of emphasis, I categorized CARE as the initial stages of parenting—from pre-natal to baby stage. Being a parent is paradoxical. We all start from scratch. Clueless. Yet, somehow we want to raise good, if not, great children (As husband and wife, we wanted to parent well). Motive is primary. The desire to […]
Helpful Parenting Principles Clueless. There are many jobs that can be delegated, if not relegated. But there are two which is an exclusive domain—Husband and Father. As a husband I am called to love my wife; and as a father, I am to protect, to nurture, and to educate my children. Ironically, our educational system […]
