Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

These days, being able to physically go to school is a treasure.

I don’t know how it is with your kids, but mine look forward to attending school physically, meeting friends in person, and listening to teachers who actually stand in front of them.

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This photo was taken earlier today.

Tomorrow all three of them are back to online learning.

Hope things get better soon.

Saturday spent amidst lots of green.

Making new friends, appreciating nature and the great outdoors.

14 km trek.

Mud. Rain. Cool breeze. Awesome view.

I look at my 3 kids and I feel time flies real fast.

(The eldest turns 18 in less than 2 months!)

Anyway, just the other day, I found my old notes from attending a parenting seminar some years ago.

Am grateful for the reminders.

Here are some of them:

Our children are entrusted into our hands for a short while, for us to raise and teach according to their Redeemer’s plans and will. They are not like paintings or antiques, which we put on display to gain people’s attention and compliments.

Children are like arrows (Psalm 127), and parents will need to release their arrows one day. The question is, have they been prepared to live in the world and to be away from us?

Raising children is a spiritual warfare. Whether or not our children care about spiritual matters depends a lot on whether their parents introduce them since they’re little.

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I often say to my kids, “I don’t know how much time I still have with you. No one knows when we’ll leave the world. But as long as you are still with us, Mommy and Daddy will teach you, as much as possible, things which you need to know and learn, to live in the world without us. You may not like it when we rebuke / tell you off / ask you to stop doing something which we believe is not good for you. Dealing with your resistance / talkbacks are emotionally exhausting, too. But the way I see it, it’s like preparing each of you to go to war, we need to equip and train you as best as we can, while we still can, before you actually leave home. We do what we need to do, because we love you and we are accountable to God to raise you during the limited time we have with you.”

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I know I am still learning along the way.

May God help every parent, and give us the wisdom, mercy and patience needed daily.

The youngest in the family is now 10.5 years old.

Time flies, huh!

And, she’s one of the four emcees at her school’s virtual concert.

If you ask me, I feel grateful for the opportunity given to her, where she can learn and exercise her public speaking skills.

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In these photos, she’s wearing some traditional costumes that I managed to put together from whatever that we have at home, hehe.

(The scarf is called “ulos”, a school principal presented it to Wilson when he was in North Sumatra, right after his ministry to students. Honoured!)

Off to school, physically, all three of them, for the first time since March 2020!

Primary. Junior High. Senior High.

Learn, have fun, and make memories.

2nd shot done. Sinovac.

Grateful to see how vaccination drive for 6-11yo goes well in Indonesia.

Soon it begin its 3rd vaccination drive for all, for free

[‘These moments’: An attempt to capture moments within the week. No words. Simple. Special. Moments I wish to treasure and remember.]

Blessed to still be able to explore and enjoy nature and the outdoors together

Mountains. Paddyfields. Valleys. Waterfalls. Tea plantations.