The perfect family… has never existed. And never will. Yes, we might perceive some families as perfect, but that’s only what you see on the surface. In my short career, I’ve come across a great number of near-perfect families that turned out to be anything but that. A perfect community exists in only two places: heaven and graveyards. What about…
“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light” – and here we are, inside this well-lit, bright, warm church hall. But that’s not the main reason we’ve left our homes, TV shows and whatever else we usually do at this time of day. We are here tonight to celebrate the incomparably more powerful source of light than…
“Mum, Dad, I’m pregnant.”
What do you want to be? Children give various answers to such a question, but the most common factor in their responses is a “noble” job, like a doctor, firefighter, pilot and the like. The reasons for choosing such occupations are to serve and help others, not for financial gratification. I guess children might be heavily influenced by what they…
It was like the end of the world; the suffering was unbearable, and the only way of dealing with such a tragedy was to scream her lungs out. Or – as seen from the toddler’s parent’s perspective – the girl tripped over her feet while trying to run forward and bumped into the ground. No lasting damage was done, there…