Treasures

You never know what you will find here. Usually something to ponder or even cook!

The Price of Children

I have repeatedly seen the breakdown of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It's nice, the government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income family. That doesn't even touch Uni tuition. But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into:

$8,896.66 a year,
$741.3 month, or * $171.08 a week.
That's a mere $24.24 a day!
Just over a dollar an hour.

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Christmas Memories

The excitement is growing as we wait impatiently for the signal. Mum and Dad are in the lounge room with the door locked. When can we come in? Then we hear it. The sound of church bells at the beginning of Dad's special Christmas record, and the door opens. The bells give way to carols by a children's choir. The lights on our tree, a casuarina cut down from a stand near our little farm, are twinkling. The tangy fragrance of oranges mixes with the still, warm summer night of Christmas Eve. On the lounge are four piles of presents, one for each of us. My sister, my two brothers and me. A new school case, perhaps new school shoes, perhaps a new dress or shirt, some pencils, perhaps a toy but always several oranges, a special Christmas treat.

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Satan's meeting

Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.

In his opening address he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their saviour. Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.”

"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.."

"This is what I want you to do," said the devil:

"Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"