“Go and give Mama some gentle touches,” said Arthur to Callum. “She’s feeling sad.” Callum came over to me. “I know why you’re sad, Mama,” he said. “It’s Auntie Red Twin.” Well, it was and it wasn’t. Actually, I was sad because I’d just received the news that some friends […]
My TAFES small group has been meeting on Zoom, and this evening we had a guest speaker, Pentecostal Bishop Dr Professor Glorious Shoo who spoke on being a Christian in challenging times. He took as his text 2 Tim 1:7, “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but […]
This post puts in one place the six ‘Corona Creatures’ that Tamie collected to create with our kids. While there has been a whole variety of processing activities we did with them (one, two, three, four), our eldest told a friend that the creature crafts have been the key to […]
Our boys enjoyed the original set of activities to help kids process loss during COVID-19 so much that even once they were completed they asked for a ‘corona activity’. Now that things have settled down a bit, we only do one or two a week. Here are the ‘extras’ we […]
Since we started on self-isolation, our family has been reading a Psalm each night over dinner (sort of – we’ve been on iso about 60 days, but we’re only up to Psalm 40!) Our kids have heard ancient Israel’s songs praising God and also ones crying out to God in […]
People have been asking us what life is like for us at the moment. As it happens, our boys wrote a letter to ‘the kids of the future’ to explain what it was like to live through the coronavirus and they have given us permission to share it here. It’s […]
Below are three self-care resources I shared with TAFES staff workers as they began working from home and isolating themselves. 1. Look at your whole self There is more detail shared by psychologist Eileen Feliciano here in 25 brief tips for mental health during quarantine. 2. Look at your movement […]
Meet Jesus at uni 