Please read this

A four year old child had her life taken from her this week.  It was a tragedy, probably one of the biggest my city has ever seen, and one that has swept the globe because it’s so heartbreaking.
I am just a spectator from the sidelines.  I listened in shock to the news filtering through talkback [...]

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Today in Melbourne

From a friend via email…

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Feelin’ hot hot hot *cue cheesy music*

I know some of you guys in The Home of the Brave are freezing to death and coming to the realisation of why bears hibernate…
But we here in the Great Southland are experiencing the flip side of global warming.
I am soooooooooooo hot.  Stinking hot.  And I live in a house that doesn’t get all that [...]

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Words

I was playing with a bunch of words the other day and came up with some short phrases that seem to encompass where my mind is at the moment and where I hope to be.  Because a plain list is boring and I am me, I decided to Wordle them.  This is what I came [...]

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Together

This Australia Day I decided not to blog about Australia.
I’ve been hearing news in the past few days about how some Australians are complaining about the Government’s plan to reduce our impact on the environment because there are other countries who are “not doing as much”. Who cares that they probably can’t afford the [...]

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Where Would You Wake Up?

In response to this (HT: Makeesha) I asked myself the question. Where would I like to wake up?
The answer wasn’t long in coming.
With my husband’s arms around me, here:

 
How about you?

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For no other reason…

than that it made me crack up laughing after a very long day:

The drama of the strawberries!  Those tense moments when they were waiting to open the envelopes!  The wondrous celebration at a win!  Quality Korean TV at its best.

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An Update

Just letting you RSS readers know that I have updated the last post My Worship so the songs now play properly.  If you dropped in before and wanted to hear them, stop by again.

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My Worship

[UPDATE: SONGS NOW STREAM PROPERLY]
Two songs have kept coming back to me lately.  They disappear for a while then drop back into my head and get into my heart.  For the lack of a better word these “worship songs” have become a thing to lean on, to pull me back, to take my spirit and [...]

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Mountains and Valleys

Have you ever had anybody preach to you about mountains and valleys? Mountaintop experiences?
Ever since I was a teenager, it’s been a favourite pull-it-out-of-the-drawer-and-dust-it-off sermon for many who grace the church platform.
I have come to the very considered opinion that it sucks.
When you’re on a “mountain”, enjoying God, loving life, on top of the [...]

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An email from Africa

I received an email from Kidslink today, an organisation that I am proud to be part of and strongly support.
This is the text of an email sent from Mozambique, Africa to Kidslink’s director in Australia.  The email from Kidslink to me (and other supporters) suggested that this kind of story is why they spend so [...]

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A year of posts

In 2008 I wrote 158 posts.  In April I switched from Blogger to WordPress and since that time I have had a total of 20,128 visits here.  I can’t for the life of me understand where these people are coming from and why, but I’m so glad to have met those who have stopped a [...]

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A year of Google

I still find myself amazed and amused at the search terms people use to get to my site.  
Some of them are weird or bizarre, some are downright hilarious.  As my first instalment of my annual wrap-up for 2008, here are some top ten lists for you for the last year:
 
Top Ten search terms that [...]

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