Health, Gardening, and Pride

I know. I haven't posted in about 2 1/2 weeks. I don't think this blog was a good idea now. I can't think of what to write! Oh well. Life updates are always good, right!? :)

We all did gardening work yesterday, and now the front garden looks lovely. The boys did a good job of putting bricked edges around part of the flower garden, and Dad planted some grasses. It looks way better! The littlies got in the way helped out with picking out stones from the garden, etc. I made this bricked area thingy around the fishpond... it's hard to explain :) I'm so sore today, though! Must be so unfit!

On Saturday I'm volunteer working for a couple that do foster caring on their farm (see www.eleazer.org.nz). What they do is so awesome! I'm looking forward tro seeing how they do it all and hopefully pick up some hints :p (see "about me").

What I've been learning... a lot lately actually. We went to a seminar about nutrition (see www.betterbods.co.nz), and it was quite eye opening and yeah, well, Mum and I have been cleaning out the cupboards of bad food (much to Dad's horror!) Hopefully we'll convert the whole family into eating more healthily sometime... some people may take some convincing though ;p The woman who taught it, Rachel Thompkinson (I know, cool name right! :D) has a young daughter who had severe eczema at just a few months old. Rachel did a lot a research, then put her daughter old a rather extreme (by today’s standards anyway!) diet cutting out all foods with MSG etc in them. Its way more complicated actually, but after a wee while of doing that Rachel's daughter got completely well. Anyway, Rachel is way more convincing and explains everything, so I'll just say it was great :)

For more deep and meaningful things...God has been teaching me a lot about pride lately. Pride is a horrid word and we all hate to hear it associated with ourselves. Unfortunately most of us have some sort of pride. On top of that, it's really complicated and it’s hard to learn how to be humble instead. I watched a talk on it by John Regier and it showed me how prideful I really am. Did you know there are two types of pride? There is obvious pride and hidden pride. I have hidden pride, which is not immediately obvious but it shows in the way I think of myself and others. So I’m asking God to help me change. Mr. Regier gave 5 Biblical ways that we can learn to change, and I can’t remember them all but it was something like: thinking of others as more important than you, never draw attention to your own achievements and abilities and a few other things but you get the basic idea. There also lots of verses in the Bible about pride and how bad it is.



So there’s a little bit about what’s up... I’ve also been reading a really good book, but I might tell you about that next time :)