Up a Notch

I have had a bad eating week but I got some exercise by accident on Friday. We missed the school bus and had to walk home.

The incidental exercise and vegetarian eating seems to working anyway cause my belt has to be tightened a notch. YAY

Valentine's Day with Jesus

Valentine's Day with Jesus

Jesus does not send perfume
To linger in the air
Instead He sends salvation, sweet
To show how much He cares.

He doesn’t bring me candy hearts
In boxes of delight
Instead He always lets me know
I’m precious in His sight.

He doesn’t pass out pretty cards
Trimmed in shades of red
Instead He gave His life for me
His precious blood was shed.

He doesn’t hand out fancy gifts
Like we would send to mother
Instead He sends a message clear
To always love each other.

He doesn’t give me teddy bears
That whimper, “Please be mine”
Instead He gave His heart to me
I wear it all the time.

He doesn’t give me roses, pink
For all the world to see
Instead He gave eternal life
That’s good enough for me.

Author/Written By:
Marilyn Ferguson
©2003

Candle Light

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For the Class of 2009

23rd Psalm for Students

23rd Psalm for Students

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not flunk
He keepeth me from lying down when I should be studying
He leadeth me beside the water cooler for a study break
He restores my faith in study guides
He leads me to better study habits
For my grades' sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of borderline grades
I will not have a nervous breakdown
For thou art with me
My prayers and my friends, they comfort me
Thou givest me the answer in moments of blankness
Thou anointest my head with understanding
My test paper runneth over with questions I recognise.
Surely passing grades and flying colours shall follow me
All the days of my examinations
And I shall not have to dwell in this exam hall forever.

--- Author Unknown

Parable of the Pencil

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Happy Sabbath # 5

My Soul Longs For the Sabbath

I want to rest from being who everyone else knows me to be.

I want to rest from being put together and up to speed
– I want to fall apart and to fall behind.
I want to stop making the same mistakes
– the ones I make when I never stop.
I want to stop hurting people for a time
– and to mourn and to cry.
I want to be suspended between the strong tall towers of obligation
– in a hammock dreaming.

I want to float where I have stumbled,
dance where I am chained,
lose where I have found.

I want to say NO where my dutiful YES has chimed forth!
I want to have six devoted days worthy of a holy seventh!
I want to lay down the burden of my ego in the soft warm cradle of tenderness!
I want to know the truth, and to speak the truth and to let it destroy me!

I want to stop measuring my worthiness and “love-ability”
– and be weak and powerful and naked.
I want to release my strength and kneel down
– still and silent as it crumbles into deep dark soil.
I want to dangle on the branches of my life’s deepest purpose
– and to ripen into richest colour and flavour.

I want to need someone again,
I want to need someone again.

I want to give away what I have kept,
fall down from where I have climbed,
receive the deepest blessing of inheritance
which is mine to share with another
in the wide restful heart of the Sabbath.

And I want to stop wanting.


Christopher Giffen
January 08
From the blog Reclaim the Sabbath

Quote for the Day

"People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing -
that's why we recommend it daily."
Zig Ziglar

Matric Banquet

Claudelle's Photography

Happy Sabbath # 11

Job 8:9 “Our life is short. We pass like shadows across the earth.”

Sermon in a Sentence

We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can -- our attitude. - John Maxwell

Life is Precious

Knowing the day

i have nothing left to say
and nothing left to learn
i've done my deed
placed my seed
got nothing left to plead

my dues are paid
my life conveyed
and love cant turn around
my sight is blurred
my life defferred
yet not one can be proud

the date when love and hate collide
is the day i shall fade in peace
and me and you can both run free
beyond the point of the sacred place
where all our greatest dreams will all be faced

now its time to go run wild
before that sacred day comes round
until that time of life and death
ill have you until my last breath

Peter Rademeyer
(Grade10)

Gives new meaning to Phillipians 4:13

Back Chat

Our Newspaper Club was started by Mr Stanley Mason in 1991. At that time
Mr Mason was the Senior English 1st Language teacher. Mrs Coetser ran the club
for a short while until she immigrated to Ireland.

The aim of the club was to improve the pupils’ journalistic, public relations and
photographic skills. The Newspaper was funded by advertisements from local businesses.

Pupils were required to sell newspaper space, take relevant photographs and write
noteworthy articles.

Mr Mason was instrumental in acquiring the school’s first computer which was
used for the Newspaper Club. At that time the Newspaper was printed by a local
printing shop in Bellville.

The newspapers were sent to old-scholars regularly to keep them informed of interesting
events and activities at their Alma Mater.

Mrs Simone Coetser has taken over from Mr Mason and is doing a good job.

If you would like to place an advertisement in our Newspaper please contact Mrs Coetser
via the school’s e-mail address: admin@helderberghs.co.za

Happy Sabbath # 10

Photograph taken by TJ
Helderberg College/Highschool Drama Group

John 3:16 (New International Version)

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,^[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Happy Sabbath # 9

“I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst” (John 6:35).


Grade 8 Grade 10
Taken at the Gala 2008 by Mr Van Horsten