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We may live in Sydney but our true hearts are in the Riverina - more specifically, deep in Crows' territory.
The Sydney Leeton-Whitton Crows Supporters' Group (pictured at our recent pre-finals champagne bunch) sends its every best wish to the net and footballers slogging it out at Narrandera on Saturday.
Go to it Crowies - you're about to discover how brilliant it is to give people what they've dared hoped for for nearly four decades.
Kerrie Ross, President Sydney Leeton-Whitton Crows Supporters' Group.
Words of wisdom
Little Johnny’s parents were called up to his school. With a deep sigh the principal began to speak.
“I don’t know how to say this; but yesterday your Johnny was caught stealing again.
“And this time, it was hundreds of pens from the school!”
Little Johnny’s parents were devastated.
“I can’t believe my boy would steal!” said his mother,
“And of all things, pens!” chimed in his father.
“Pens! I thought that would be the very last thing he would steal!”.
The puzzled principal asked, “Why would pens be the last thing he would steal?”.
Little Johnny’s father replied passionately, “I bring him home hundreds and hundreds of pens from my work!”
It’s amazing what an influence we have on others, especially children.
Yet I sometimes think we are reluctant today to say anything is “wrong”.
What even using the word “wrong” can be branded as being “negative”.
We hear the expressions “no limits” and “no boundaries” presented as a philosophy of life that is positive.
Hmm, I’m not so sure.
However, how do we know anything?
By its outline, it’s boundaries.
How do we know the size of a room?
By its walls. How do we identity Australia and each state?
By their boundaries, their borders. How do we know a football field? By its lines.
Could you imagine a game of footy with no boundaries? No rules. No posts, no clock or no scoreboard?
Pfft.
How do we know ourselves?
By our boundaries, our limits, by having some sort of order in our life.
There are those who live by no boundaries, but this way of life often ends with a jail sentence.
A mother of young children advised me, “Always shut the farm gate or the sheep will stray and the foxes get them”.
Boundaries become most significant when considering children.
In a world where children can and are caught up in an emotional, physical and spiritual shipwreck if their boundaries are crumbling, it is important that firm boundaries are set to ensure that the child grows with confidence and knowledge to tackle life’s challenges.
God only sets boundaries for us so that we can know our true identity and our true destination, not to rob us of love and freedom.
If we do not know our boundaries, how can we know our true identity?
Fr Brendan Lee.