Minneke’s Musings
“Wow Anna, that's very careful colouring!””Ughhh Mum, don't say that!” she replied.”Why not?” I asked.”Because you say that EVERY time…”Aren't people so perceptive from such a young age?! She was right… I had been giving her that same line when…
There they sat, chewing million dollar grass. Lucky cows… some might have thought. But there they were, cows sitting in a paddock right in the heart of Auckland City, with the best view in town. My Dad and I chuckled…
I remember watching a TV program once about the sun. It was so interesting, so fascinating… and yet quite terrifying. Solar flares, temperatures that are out of this world (no pun intended), explosions and nuclear activity that dwarfs the most…
“You mean… you’re just going to give it away? But we need that money!” My husband had decided to give away our remaining piano before we moved back to New Zealand. We could’ve sold it for about 4000RMB, around $800NZ.…
Jesus told us we are salt and light. I guess I kind of understood the light part, that seemed fairly clear and easy to understand… but the salt? I assumed that had something to do with it's flavouring properties. Luke 14:34-35…
“Gross!” my kids exclaimed… “Yup,” I said, “John the Baptist ate honey and locusts”. John certainly had an interesting life… an angel made it to his Dad before he was born that he wasn’t to ever drink wine, and…