So a couple of things have happened the past couple of days which have made me sit up and take notice....you know those kind of things that give you a bit of a shake and make you think about things a little deeper than you would on an average day.

1) I was chatting to someone yesterday and they were talking about the fact that their daughter wouldn't attend school, she hadn't been for 2 weeks. I was asking her why this was and she came up with every excuse; the teachers were horrible to her, she didn't like Physical Education, the Social Worker was no help. Basically she got to the point in the end where I think she'd have blamed the school crossing lady before shouldering her part of the blame as a mother. We live in this culture now that says, "Don't take responsibilty as there will be someone else you can blame for it and probably someone you can sue". It got me thinking about our School of Leaders that we've been doing in church; we've just started level 2 which is teaching on us opening our own cells. In level 1 they looked a lot at families and we were always told that as Christians if we don't model family to the world, who will. It is so true, who will model parenting and the fact it is healthy and godly to discipline your childen; or that there is a structure to the family that God created which is best represented through a father and mother. Are we representing a godly family within the church or are we copying the worlds trend? So many thoughts going through my head at the moment!

2) I then watched a fictitious documentary last night on the assasination of George W Bush called "The Death of a President". Was very interesting and definitely gave food for thought as to whether or not it could happen. It was very much a dig at the sitting President and his actions and went along a route that could be possible with his actions during the Iraq war. What I found most chilling was the fact that this was aired on the same day that North Korea announced their nuclear weapons test....we live in such an unstable world.....am glad that I know that though I don't know everything that is going on, God does!