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Lately having problems publishing post especially during the day time. Last Sunday, our children were taught how to create a simple time-line using a story from the Bible. First we told the children the background of the story and then we distribute the time line cards to them. We use the yarn and clothespeg for the kids to add their card to the time line while the story was being told. What I enjoy from this process is that the children listen attentively to the story as they need to peg the correct cards to the time-line and they were told to read the time line card to reinforce their memory. Children are just lovely though they can misbehave at times.

Is Patience just the ability to wait? It is more than that. When we describe someone with the patience of Job, it means he or she can keep their temper in the face of severe trials and difficulties. According to Joyce Meyer in her book, "Be your best", Patience is a fruit of God’s Spirit which manifests itself in a calm, positive attitude. It is the ability to keep a good attitude while we wait. We need to turn to Him to work His patience into us. It is easy to lost our cool but only when we turn to Him, then we are able to develop this potential. To help us develop this potential, I realise God also put us in certain environments. Heb 10:36 .... We need patience so that we may perform and fully accomplish the will of God.

A water bearer in China had two large pots, one hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master's house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his master's house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you." Why?" asked the bearer. "What are you ashamed of?" "I have been able, for...

Do not be disheartened. Though we are an old pot of clay or even a cracked pot, yet the excellency of the power of God worked in us. Although we are cracked, the light of Christ in us will shine through the cracks. Without the cracks, no one can see God's wonderful work in us. God works through our imperfections for His glory. So that when people look at us and see amazing things happening, they know it must be God at work because it certainly could not be us. I always enjoy this verse, “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excel­lency of the power may be of God, and not of us. (2 Corinthi­ans 4:7.) Though we are so ordinary, so earthen, we have the excellent power of God in us. We live by this whole new way ie. trusting God always in our daily lives. Isn't it amazing?