Magpies are inquisitive and unafraid. Charismatic carollers whose wonderful warbles make them one of my favourite birds. Magpies love a tasty morsel of meat. But I didn't have any to offer this fellow who'd landed on my camping table. But he hung around anyway. 🙂 "Hello there magpie, what are you up to?" (yes, I …
Welcome to "Bible Ponderings #4" which finds me in the book of 1 Samuel in the chronological reading plan. Every few weeks or so I hope to toss out there what I'm currently reading and invite you to ponder with me! Then Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us …
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Welcome to "Bible Ponderings #3" which finds me in the book of Joshua in the chronological reading plan. Every few weeks or so I hope to toss out there what I'm currently reading and invite you to ponder with me! Have you ever attended a stadium concert, or a stadium sporting game, or perhaps even …
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What would you say is one of the greatest contentment stealers? Here are some clues to one: Everyone does it. We naturally and developmentally begin to do this from the age of about five. It's particularly prevalent during our adolescent identity-forming years. There is a healthy version of this thing and an unhealthy version. The …
A huge and slow moving weather system recently parked itself on top of south-east Queensland and dumped 80% of our annual rainfall over 2- 3 days. It has now gone south and is doing just as much damage in coastal New South Wales. As the flood waters surged in the Brisbane River concrete pontoons weighing hundreds …
Welcome to "Bible Ponderings #2" which finds me in Leviticus and soon to be Numbers in the chronological bible reading plan. Every few weeks or so I hope to toss out there what I'm currently reading and invite you to ponder with me! Let's be honest, it can be hard going and possibly "boring" wading …
The blue of the summer day was breathtakingly brilliant, we were camping, and one thing I love about camping is there is time to take photos like this, just because. What is beyond this dead tree, this moon, this blue? There is the reality of planets, black holes, supernovas, red dwarf stars, white dwarf stars, …
Welcome to my first ever "Bible Ponderings" where every month or so I hope to toss out what I'm currently pondering in my one year chronological bible reading plan and invite you to ponder with me! I'm not a bible scholar, so if good apologetics is what you're after you may like to peruse some …
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There were a series of fortunate events that happened at our house a few weeks ago. Firstly, I glanced down before stepping outside. Secondly, our two dogs (meet Max and Willow) were out on a walk with my daughter. Thirdly, our snake catching neighbour was home and kindly "relocated" the baby brown snake which had …
Have you ever been part of a parade? Perhaps marched as part of a sporting team or other club at a community event? Imagine for a moment you've got a bird's eye view of that parade. From on high you can see the whole twisting line as it moves through the streets, and in one …
Quietly Roaring 