Parenting on Purpose

It's been a quiet and busy couple of weeks to Easter. We spent last week mourning the passing of our founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, with the boys paying their respects at the Community tribute site near our home and watching the funeral cortège go by last Sunday. We had not done as many Truth of the Resurrection lessons as I would have wanted by Good Friday, but I believe the Holy Spirit has guided us to do the ones we should. Understanding the truth of the Gospel is not something that will happen through the mere reading and comprehension of the Bible text, we know, it will ultimately be about the Holy Spirit's conviction in their lives to want to follow Him wholeheartedly. Their understanding of Jesus' death and resurrection and what it means for them personally will grow as they listen to the stories and understand who He is, our Suffering Servant and Reigning King. Last year, Z accepted Jesus into his heart shortly after we had done Amanda Oh's T...

On the morning of Good Friday, the children woke up bright and early all excited for our outing with our homeschooling group at the Botanics. Our family started a new tradition by having Communion Breakfast with hot cross buns (provided by Nai Nai) and grapes. Communion Breakfast - a new family tradition for the Lim family. Daddy led a time of communion and shared about the last meal that Jesus had with his disciples. He then broke bread, and the family ate the buns and the grapes. And all that despite our  1-year-old E, who found it difficult to understand why he had to wait for everyone to eat the bread and grapes together. The Lim family partaking in communion. After breakfast, Daddy told the Easter story, and shared why Jesus had to die on the cross to take away all the pain of the world. But Jesus rose again from the dead on Easter, and that's why we can live forever with Him. At the Botanics, we met our homeschooling group and promptly started to put togethe...

I had been planning to do this ever since I found Oh Amanda's activities on her website which help us to take our children through Jesus' death and resurrection as Easter approaches.  However, as we were sick last week I didn't have the strength or energy to start, so we only just began yesterday with celebrating Palm Sunday (late,  I know!) Well, better late than never, I always believe, especially when it comes to homeschooling activities... We began our morning by reading about Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem and how the people recognised His Kingship by laying their cloaks on the ground as well as palm branches, and shouting "Hosanna!" We then started our craft time by tracing our hands on green construction paper and sticking the green hands on the ends of ice cream sticks. (This was great for eye-hand coordination as I had Z put one hand on the paper while using the other to trace it himself.) Here is our little one's contr...