Principal's Message

PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

Dear Friends,

Hope you all had a lovely Mothers’ Day despite many of you being separated from your Mums in this isolation period. All my family (except my husband) live interstate, so it was wonderful they joined me in our live stream of church on Sunday and later rang me on FaceTime. I am so thankful for technology and for the ways we can keep in touch.

When we lived in the Solomon Islands in the late 80s, we had no phone, no internet or technology to keep in touch with family and friends. It took around 6 weeks for a letter to reach Australia from the island where we lived. Wherever we live, whatever circumstances we find ourselves in, we can be confident that God is in control and we can rest in Him and have a peace that can carry us through our valleys and dark times.

I wrote the following poem many years ago and called it TUG of WAR

I strive

to be a blessing to others.

I strive

to be a good mother, wife and Christian.

I strive

To be obedient to God’s calling.

In my eyes, I must be productive and achieve.

His eyes, just yearn for me to know Him,

To be enveloped in His love… to be free from guilt and the bondage of ‘doing’.

I rest

in knowing that God loves me, whatever state I’m in.

I rest

in knowing that God fulfils all my needs.

I rest

In knowing He Has my life in His control.

For His grace is sufficient for me.

Many of our dark times/battles begin in our minds. We need to keep on giving over our thoughts and concerns to Jesus to overcome our circumstances. Whether it is just in our mind or even reality, we can’t live up to the expectations and image of being the ‘perfect’ mother, father, brother, daughter, friend.

Our aim if we are a follower of Jesus, is not to strive in becoming ‘perfect’ but to trust him, walk with Him and obey Him every day. Trust and obey there is no other way!

We must not focus on our deeds, our gifts, our circumstances – but continually be embedded in and glory much in God and His GRACE!

But my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

- 2 Corinthians 12: 9-10

If you struggled to listen to the recording we sent out last week (for Mothers’ Day) because of the bad sound, this is a better recording for you to listen to and hopefully be encouraged:

I came across this verse (author unknown) many years ago:

“May every soul that touches mine-

Be it the slightest contact – get therefore some good,

some little grace, one kindly thought,

one inspiration yet unfelt, one bit of courage

for the darkening sky, one gleam of faith

to brave the thickening ills of life,

one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists,

to make this life worthwhile,

and heaven a surer heritage.”

Every blessing to you all,

Catriona Wansbrough