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Love build relationships

Love smiles when all is dark

Love is patient when others are fractious

Love is kind, never binds

Love is freedom

Dear Followers

Today is a red-letter day for me.

Today my new blog is launched

I have a site with WordPress, but I find it very had to navigate, mostly because of my age and ignorance. I wanted a site was professional-looking, that I could be proud of, and that would be easy to publish material.

It was my good fortune to meet a person, an expert in IT and who would build a site for me…

A kings crown. The ancient pharaohs wore these crowns.

In his autobiography A Kings Story, the Duke of Windsor told the story of an incident at the funeral of his father, George V.

He described how his father’s body was being conveyed on a draped carriage through crowded streets of London when a mishap occurred.

The imperial crown had been placed over the Royal Standard and fastened on…

EIGHT WRITING PROMPTS.

GONE FISHING TO FIND YOUR MUSE AGAIN

To every writer comes the time when a blank page or blank screen is before them and they are bereft of words to type on the page or screen.

The mind usually teeming with ideas jostling to find space on the page have gone walk-about and are nowhere to be found.

There is plenty of advice as to what to do and how to affect a…

FOUR GUIDES TO HEALTH

The tree in this picture has accepted the bolt for the chain to close the gate.  Maybe it hurt when the bolts were first hammered in – maybe the tree bled some sap – who knows.

But the tree didn’t give up and die because of its mistreatment it got on with the job of growing over its wound; beautifying the offending things, making the bolt and chain part of it.  

How forgiving is that?

MAVERICK’S ROUNDUP Gwenneth Leane

An excerpt from the book, MAVERICK’S ROUNDUP

NEW GIRL ON THE BLOCK

Girls, well, I had a couple of mild crushes on girls in the Christian Endeavour group. They did not last long living miles out of town with only a pushbike for transport across a mountain range was obstacle enough to kill off any budding romance. Dad was directional in trying to pair me up with suitable local girls.

 ‘Now…

Robert Warmington, guest writer

Robert Warmington was a young man searching for young man searching for answers back in the 1960s.  He drifted into the Riverland and found more than than he bargained for, he found, a new life.

I worked on a lot of fruit blocks and farms just to see what it was like and found it was too hard and not enough money.  I stopped for fuel at the Shell roadhouse…

THE TABLE LAID READY FOR A FAMILY CELEBRATION.

THE setting below is set with loving care to give the utmost joy to those invited to the meal. 

THERE is nothing like a meal together to cement relationships, to break down barriers; to share with those less fortunate. A meal together is a sign of acceptance, no matter the colour or creed.

BASIC TABLE SETTING:

A serving plate placed in…

SIX WAYS TO READ THE BIBLE Three Thousand Years of History

Leslie Scott, guest writer

God has given us a library of 66 books. The 39 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books which cover over 3000 years of history are written by a variety of authors and include many types of literature. It is no surprise that many people come to the Bible wondering how it all fits together. The Lord did not arrange the scriptures topically so that we could read study…

DANCING WITH DARWIN 2

by BRONWYN PEARSE. Guest writer

This is the second blog on this topic. Here’s the first Dancing with Darwin 1.   (If you missed it)  

“Two million years ago our solar system passed within 130 light years of a group of giant stars called the Scorpio’s Centaurus. … on earth, deep ocean floor samples reveal an iron-60 excess, the signature of a supernova eruption that also dates to 2…

A FACE IN A CROWD

The hair on every head in this picture is numbered by God. And more.

You matter. In day to day life, we often ask, do we matter?  Do we contribute to the world? Our nation?  Are we just a face in the crowd?

To our government we are only a number, go into the shopping mall, and we take a number and stand in a queue. We have no name and wait in line for our number to appear on a screen. The…

Myosotis – Forget Me Not

Guest writer: Lorraine Zinnack, Kangaroo Island, S.A.

Names are facinating. Most names have a meaning. It would appear that people grow to be like their name. It could be because God new us, planned for us, mapped out a course of life for us, even before he had created the world. ‘But when he who had set me apar before I was born, and who called me by his grace.’Psalm 139ESV

I am…

THE BULL’S OUT

an ecxerpt from the book Maverick’s Roundup by

Bruce and Gwenneth Leane

It was Dad’s practice on Sunday mornings when the milking was finished to take the milk 2 kilometres out to the collection point on the main road by horse and cart. Then he would come home, wash himself, change his clothes, and prepare himself spiritually for church.  When the milking was finished, Mum would organise us…

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Caged. When my children were young, like most families we kept a budgie in a small cage.  His name was Georgie.  Because he was a young bird alone, we were able to teach him to talk.  ‘Hello Georgie’ and ‘Pretty boy’. I used to talk to him a lot because my children were all at school and my husband at work…

I hated seeing him in such a tiny cage where he could not fly free…

‘I did it!’ Mordy succeeded in blowing out his candles.

ACCEPTED. My great-grandson is turning 2 years old and his Mum is planning a party. His mum has favoured me with an invitation to attend. I have accepted. I look forward to the party with joy and thanks giving that I am among the favoured few.

Remember when Jesus birth was anticipated?  The angel appeared to Mary and said, ‘…