backyardmissionary

I would be the first to admit that my exit from blogging world last week was rather a snap decision - albeit a right one - and as a result I hadn’t thought thru what to do with this blog… whether to delete it, keep it, hide it etc… all that sort of stuff.
Having chewed […]

It’s been an interesting start to the year and I have been sensing some changes afoot in the Hamo household, particularly in my own life.
One of those changes is that I am going to be giving up blogging for at least two years if not permanently. It’s a long and somewhat personal story that doesn’t […]

I don’t normally do these things, but just thought I’d give it a shot as I am living on my own this week with Danelle and kids in Moore River until Friday and I have lots of spare time. (It reminds me of what it is like to be single again!) It was Bek who […]

Grendel has started another blog.
A man can’t have too many!
It is entitled ‘Scrap-book Widower’ and chronicles the agony of having a wife devoted to this weird and wonderful activity of scrapping. He is following on from this blog.
Danelle has been a scrapper for quite some time now. She did the whole consultant thing, but she […]

“Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality”
Martin Luther King

Tomorrow night is coffee roasting (and drinking) night at Grendel’s place. We will be kicking off around 8pm so if you’re curious about roasting coffee from home and would like to drop in then you’re most welcome.
Just drop us an email and we will send you the address. Its always a good night!
We are […]

Its a question I am pondering at the moment, following a conversation with some friends on Friday night.
I have always been taught that ‘mediums’ do not draw on the actual spirits of the people but simply access other spirits who masquerade as such.
But… as I was reading 1 Samuel last week I came across this […]

“The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening […]

Sir Frances Drake, the first Englishman to navigate the globe spoke these words in prayer:
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst […]

This year Danelle and I will be going back to a traditional church.
No I’m not kidding. I will explain in a moment, but first a digression.
If technorati were working properly then yesterday I would have finally made it to the first page of blogs tagged with ‘Emerging Church’ and I would have been able to […]

This came thru from Grendel today…

My blog is worth $85,245.54.How much is your blog worth?

Hey, if this blog is worth $85000.00 then its for sale as of now!
I’ll take the money and run.
Any takers?…
Anybody?…
Hmm…

I remember learning about BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals - and their importance in being a visionary leader who people would follow.
But lately I’ve been struggling to come up with BHAGs.
Sometimes I look at my goals for the year (yes - I do set goals at the start of each year!) and they look […]

I use the ‘book’ section of the blog as a way of keeping track of what I have read over the year. You can see what I got thru last year in the column on the left.
I’m not a superfast reader nor a slow one. I think I average a book a fortnight.
So here are […]

The day I got back from holidays I woke up at midnight with such an acidy stomach I couldn’t get back to sleep. A couple of antacids helped, but since then (last Tuesday) I have a had a stomach disturbance that won’t seem to go away.
It is one of those bugs that makes you feel […]

When you send your kids to Grandma’s house you never know what treasure they will find hidden away…
This time though it wasn’t the kids - it was me that found the treasure!
Pete just happened to mention that they had the complete two volume set (1200 pages) of Hudson Taylor’s biography written by his son Howard […]

They say you can sell anything on E-bay.
Well this guy tried…
I couldn’t resist emailing and asking him if pick-up was available!