Archive for July, 2010

Here’s My Home Goes Public (Public Kindergarten that is).

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Over the past few weeks our Edge Albums “Your Love Is A Song” has been playing loudly over the stereo system at an Auckland suburban kindy.

Our boys had been talking to a teacher about their “church music” and their favourite song. The boys then took the album to Kindy to give to her as a gift. I was thinking, “Its so going to end up collecting dust in the bottom of a draw or get thrown in the bin”! But still we gave it to her anyway. What did we have to lose?

Straightaway the album got opened up and played, loudly through the Kindy sound system.

Every morning as parents dropped their children off, Your Love Is A Song could be heard playing as you walked through the gate towards the building. The song was loved so much that it was included on the play list at the recent Kindy disco. So now, here at a public Kindy – ( a mainstream NZ education system run Kindy) on the dance floor under flashing coloured lights – teachers, children and parents were dancing and singing to Your Love Is A Song.

It was the most amazing moment, heaven and earth colliding, the sounds of Edge playing out. I wonder what sounds of heaven are we all to carry with us as we live out or daily lives??

May the sounds of Edge – musical and non-musical continue to impact our Nation and Nations beyond.

Cath.

Seasons.

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

We are governed by them.
Whether we like it or not our lives are determined by eternal seasons, cycles
that provide for us boundaries that constrain us and opportunities for us to grow.
Like the Garden.
The word ‘season’ comes from a Latin word meaning ‘to sow’
According to the Moons cycle, I should be careful when to sow and when to leave
the ground alone. Like, ‘Plant your potatoes on the shortest day of the year’…What’s that all about?
Something greater than my plans are at work, that I am subjected to, if I choose to be.
And there is wisdom in following something bigger than me, the sun and the moon,
great lights that circle the earth, put in place so that I can reach my full potential.
A time to sleep, a time to wake, a time to plant, and a time to leave fallow.
There is another set of Seasons that we can follow, if we choose to.
This is the Church Liturgical Season, which engages us in a completely different
rhythm, a journey from chronos – chronological time, to kairos time, which is viewed
as an opportunity or encounter.
It is also an eternal season, which offers -
‘an invitation to live time in eternity, to discover a new understanding of God and Creation.’
-Henri Nouwen.
So we are in Winter. And according to the Church Calendar, the season of Ordinary Time.
Our focus is on the life of Christ, God became flesh, and all of the mysteries and wonders that
surround that incredible season in the history of the World.
How does that affect me today?
I like to believe that it ‘s influence is as powerful as any breath-taking frosty morning or snow
capped peak.
So let’s engage ourselves fully with the Seasons that we live in, for as the writer of Ecclesiastes
says, ‘There is a time for everything under heaven….’

Linda

Birthday Season.

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

I have a birthday calendar.
I like to think that I could remember everybody’s birthday without recording them, but that’s
getting harder as the years go by. But even with my concise system in place, if I don’t look at it on a regular basis,
I am bound to forget a birthday or two…even a whole months worth sometimes.

Birthdays are important.
In my family, they are the reason that we gather at least 5, (and more recently 7)
times a year to celebrate the life of one, no excuses, no absences…!

Edge Family is having a Birthday on Sunday. We are turning 11.
That’s an achievement to be proud of.
Now at my family gatherings, everyone has to attend. It’s the only time they do what they are told!
I’d like to say the same to all of you….but that would be taking things a little far.
But I do want to encourage you all to come along, join the celebration and remember many of
the amazing times we have shared together on the journey so far.

Happy Birthday Edge.

Linda