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After we read the story of Cain and Abel with Abi this morning: Me God sees everything including what you are thinking Abi Don't worry

The other night when Abi was in the bath, she decided to do some swimming. She went down onto all fours, and then lifted her feet up to float along the surface of the water. Like this she ‘swam’ lengths of the bath with her hands on the bottom.

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For a short while when we’ve been having our morning family devotional time together Abi has been repeating a prayer word by word after me - usually something intended to be like “Thank-you Lord for mummy and daddy” but usually when she’s said ‘mummy’ and I say ‘and’ she adds ‘Abi’ but this morning I asked her if she wanted to pray and said ‘repeat after me’, and she says:

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Just had the first session entitled ‘What is the gospel?’ looking at Romans 1:1-6. Go Paul’s introduction to the letter there is a nice summary. From God…about Jesus…for everyone The talks were all very good and left me with lots to think about. I was particularly struck by the talks about heaven and hell, which gave a really clear explanation of the motives for evangelism. As when we die we are faced with either eternal life or eternal punishment as the situation is very serious.

We had a lovely holiday last week at Center Parcs - we’d booked it almost a year ago to make use of the discount they give if you rebook within 28 days of getting home so we were looking forward to it for a long time! It was so different to last time we went, as last time Abi was only tiny and not yet moving around, so we carried her around in the sling most of the time.