Inspiration

Most of us faithfully remember and capture out children's "firsts." Karen encourage readers to try recognise and savor the often- fleeting "lasts"-- those milestone that so easily go unrecorded...

Video games are an increasingly influential part of our culture. This growing trend has some parents frustrated as they try to balance the time their children spend playing games and the influence those games have over them...

The HELP Series: Answers to Focus on the Family’s most frequently asked questions Is a bully intimidating your child? Bullying, among both boys and girls, is a growing problem. Kids need parents to get involved on their behalf. What can you do? Take the first step – get help. HELP! My Child Is Being Bullied is a quick, easy-to-use resource that looks at: -signs that your child is being bullied -how to deal with bullies -how to help a child who is hurting -what to do if your child is a bully Bullying is a serious problem, but it doesn’t have to be a lasting one. Inside you’ll find the practical and balanced advice you need to encourage your child and to stop bulling. You can help put the fun back into your child’s life...

Author of marriage – Gift to the World, has brought together in book form a collection of her radio talks first broadcast over Catholics-on-Air (96.9 Plains FM). These weekly reflections will delight the reader by their down to earth homeliness, yet deep spiritual truth. Each item is followed by Scripture references to aid meditation and prayer. The book includes occasional poems and attractive line drawings. Certainly this is a book to enjoy, and also to give. Peb and her husband enjoy their ever-expanding family of young marrieds and grandchildren. She is also an active member of the Carmelite Secular Order. ..

Since 1978 lecturer, writer, broadcaster on prayer, lay spirituality and family life. Peb trained and worked as a Spiritual Director at Rosary House Christchurch. Her articles and poetry have been published in secular and religious journals; her biography of Ria Bancroft Sculptor, No Ordinary Woman, was released late 1997. Peb is married to Aldren. Their family consists of five children and six grand children. The concept of Marriage-Gift to the World comes from the lived family experience, developing the belief that marriage can become the most fruitful life-gift for each couple and their world. MARRIAGE is not dead; it needs only to be rediscovered and renewed in CHRIST...

You are familiar St. Paul's writings, correct? Sometimes one line can become very long and convoluted and even turn almost a whole chapter of a book. He would not get an "A" for grammar. But, in some ways I say, "So what? Big deal. He does not have to be perfect." Some say he wrote in the imperfect manner that he did because he was so full of grace that it was uncontainable and spilling out all over the place. Welling up with grace and words and light and life, St. Paul just filled the page as God rushed forth! And that is the way I would like you to look at this book. It is not perfect but neither am I. This book is about a perfectly loving God coming to save a sinner like me and you. It is about God rushing in with his grace and words and light and life to create this book, however imperfect it might be. So, I pray that God will be uncontainable in you and you will not worry so much about having perfect presentation and grammar in your life. You do not have to have your house in or..