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Today I found a book titled ‘The Power of a praying woman’. Upon reading the first few pages, I realised that this is what I needed in my life… definitely the power of prayers. One thing Stormie Omartian (author of book) said that struck more than one chord for me… that we, women, often find it easier to pray for others than to pray for ourselves. The other thing that was a WOW! for me was the statement that women seem to rely a lot on the men to pray for them and give them the appreciation when we should really just turn to Jesus! Yes, the guys just don’t cut it! But Jesus does!

I guess reflecting on what Stormie said and the hollow feelings I had, I suppose the empty feelings I have in me is a sign that I definitely need the powers of prayer in my life.  I’ll read on and will come back here to share my thoughts…

For now, my prayer is that I will have the strength to complete reading the book…. I think I need to read/see/hear what God has to say to me through Stormie’s writing.

As a general rule, Matthew does not like fruit..The only concession he has made to date are eating canned fruits. So when Dad noticed how Matthew was eating his jelly, he was curious. He saw how Matthew would scoop out the longans to eat first and then kept the jelly aside.

So dad asked him why. Matthew answered, ‘Longans are like homework. You eat them first then you get to the good parts.’

Guess this must be an indication that the usual homework mantra has sunk into his head…  : ) Found it facinating that he could relate the ‘do your homework first then you can play as much as you want’ to eating fruit jellys.

On second thoughts, Matthew has a habit of keeping his favourite food for last.. so that he can savour the enjoyment of this food morsel. Very opposite to the girls. Judith on the other hand would eat her favourite food first!