Ellie got her report today (from term 1) and immediately noticed where she hadn’t done well. She cracked the sads and let us know she was dumb.
She actually got the equivalent of 2 cs and 2 bs which won’t make her a rocket scientist but neither is it reason to slit your wrists. However in [...]
Some days suburban transience really does give me the irrits.
We have been gone 6 months and on Saturday we arrived back in our street and caught up with friends and neighbours and the church community we will be leading. It was beautiful to see those people again and yet what strikes me this morning is [...]
In the last 6 months we have put the camper up exactly 69 times, and we’re pretty damn good at it now! What began as a fumbling laborious process has now become a second nature type of routine, however I won’t miss it when we head home tomorrow. Life as a snail has its limitations!
As [...]
We left Busselton on Saturday, the first really hot day of spring, and headed up to Moore River to spend the last week or so of our holiday with the in-laws. All went well until we hit Perth and the air con ‘thermal overload’ switch decided to do its thing again. I still think its [...]
I woke at 5.45 this morning and decided to do an early run to the beach and try to beat the crowds. I knew the surf was on the rise, the offshores were blowing and by 10.00am it would be crowded.
I went to Indijup Carpark first up, the place I had been the last [...]
Does it ever strike you as odd that while many churches appoint ‘pastors’ and may even call them ‘Pastor X’, they don’t do the same with apostles?…
In my own tribe we don’t have much problem with the role of pastor, teacher or even evangelist, but when it comes to prophets and apostles we seem a [...]
I picked this quote up the other day but can’t remember where, so sorry if I pinched it off you unacknowledged! It spoke to an issue I have been pondering so you might find it helpful too.
Nouwen: … Let me paint a picture. You’re in a big room with a six-inch balance beam in the [...]
We got Ellie surfing at Twilight Beach.
After the dash from Esperance in the wild winds we finished up at Albany and the Big 4 caravan park right on Middleton Beach.
Pic: Middleton Beach
This is a brilliant location and a great park with heaps of facilities, but it was also the most expensive park we have stayed in over the trip at [...]
At what point should a government be able to over-ride parental rights and concern for children?
This was an underlying question to emerge from a story we watched on TV recently and that has been making news in Perth.
Last Sunday night we watched the ‘Sunday Night’ show as it told of a father and mother who [...]