Category: Reading the Bible

I remember a certain moment of exasperation with a certain child as the bunch of 6 (at the time) and I were rushing off to school one morning.

The moment came at the insistence of the usual seating plan needing to be adhered to when for whatever reason that morning it was more expedient to just tumble in and GO. My question to them was “what is the heart of that rule?” The answer for them might have been fairness (front seat turns) but for me it was efficiency since I didn’t want the front seat discussion every journey- so I created a guideline (rule/roster/structure) to manage it.

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Last spring I cleared a section of garden where a vine had overtaken an old swing frame. It was super pretty in its overgrown state but entirely unusable and the years for baby swings have passed on by.

It took a half day to hack away at those vines which, having had free reign for a decade were thick, entwined and twisted in every place they could take hold. One section I remember reminded me of an old western movie lasso- a couple of meters long, twisted near perfect as a rope, each part thicker than my thumb. That vine had separated the wooden planked swing roof sending it tumbling once the vine stranglehold was removed and would have continued to grow in strength and damage had it not been chopped off from the root that fed it.

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