Unbind my feet

The Cat Empire sings a song called “The Crowd”.  As often happens, God speaks to me through this what some people I know would call “secular” song.
Here are the lyrics, or you could go watch it on Youtube.
Lord unchain my hands
Let me sing inside the crowded trams
Let me dance among the traffic jams
We’re going to [...]

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Holiday (celebrate)

Sorry for getting bad 80s music in your heads (actually I’m not really that sorry), but I thought I’d let you know I’m off on holiday (that’s vacation to you US peoples) for a week with little or no internet acces.  Hence there shall be no blogging.
In case you were wondering where I’d got to, [...]

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The Last

Women have an inherent strength.  I don’t know what it is, but it’s the basis to what we are and why we can do so much.  Men have a different coping mechanism – I’m not about to be down on them.  I’m no feminist, I believe both men and women have very different but very [...]

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What the?

What on earth is going on when we’re getting earthquakes in Melbourne???
I thought it was an explosion at first – much more likely around here.  Apparently it was a 4.7 about 70 – 80km from here – would have been about 3.5 by the time it got to us.  Nothing serious, just gave me a [...]

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U2’s line on the horizon

Yesterday we listened to U2’s new album No Line on the Horizon.  I’m still undecided as to how much I like it, but a few of the lyrics jumped out at me – most especially some from a song oddly titled Stand Up Comedy:
I can stand up for hope, faith, love
But while I’m getting over [...]

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