Melbourne

Been and seen Melbourne, at least some of it! I have to admit that I liked Melbourne, though I wouldn't want to live there. I much prefer living here in Brisbane, but as a place to visit I would highly recommend Melbourne.

I had the opportunity to visit the botannical gardens that are in Melbourne and I had a really beautiful time there. The place is really beautiful and there is a wide variety of plant life there. Also I just had this real deep sense of peace, the peace that you know can only come from God. I was just walking around the gardens, enjoy creation and communion with God.

It may even been a little of what Adam experienced, when he walked with God in the Garden of Eden during the cool of the day

Alot of change

I just recently changed work depots, just 2 weeks after returning to my home depot from another different depot. So to make this clear, I have changed work depots twice in the last couple of months compared with only once in the last 2 years.
Then there is the change of home churches as I am joining Geoff Armitage in his intentional interim pastorship at Cannon Hill Baptist. So God has me going through alot of change, ever since returning from Finland

War wounds

Well I have had to change depots for work and I have only been there for two days and already I have war wounds. Bumps, bruises, cuts and scraps, grazes and marks. I spend several months at Mayne depot and nothing. I move to Banyo and I get beaten up, there must be an easier way to make money!!

Connect Australia

Well it is official I will be going Sydney to attend a gathering over the weekend of the 15th to the 17th of this month. The gathering is being called by Donny Mcgregor and it is for young 'emerging' leaders. So I guess that is why I don't know what to expect in going, as I don't see myself in any leadership postion to validate the invitation. But hey they invited me and I was hoping to be able to meet Marc van der Woude, when I heard that he was coming out to Australia.
So off I go, well not until the 15th

My own computer

Well I have finally got my one computer, actually it is a laptop! I have had it for the last two weeks and it is really cool having my own computer. And also trying to create a wireless network in my home.
So I can be in my room and still access the interent and there are no wires for anyone to trip over!

Some great news

I have to items of news to share, I will share the least item of the good news first. Well I just found out today that I will be able to claim back form the government about 1900 dollars which practically pays for my new laptop

And the second bit of good news, which is so much better than the one I mentioned before, is that I am going to be an uncle! As I just found out last night, that my brother's wife, Dayna, is ten weeks pregnant. So in early April I am going to be an uncle, and I believe I am going to have a nephew! But if it isn't, she will still be special!

Freedom

The first thing I want to say about the whole trip is the absolute freedom I had to be ME. And I think and hope that the people that joined the group during our travels had the same freedom.

For me, it was so good to be able to be and to do what I felt the Lord lead me to do. As for myself I find that I seem to follow more the expectations that others have on me, also maybe their perceived expectations of me. So to have this liberty was just great.

Now it is being challenged back here in Australia. I went to my home church straight after landing in Australia and it was hard to see that people were at a different place then I was. So I was faced with either feeling guilty that I wasn't at the same place as people in my church were or to start judging them for not being where I was.

So it was good to be able to see the battle for what it was. An attempt to get me to fall back into old ways and to not be living in peace with who I am and where God is taking me. So I was able to choose to rejoice at where I was with the Lord and to bless those in my church who were in a different place!

Ooops I did it again

Ok ok Laura, I get the point!! Again I start the journey but don't seem to complete it. I had wanted to make regular updates on my blog during my trip to the North. But still found it hard to get on line, I think I am going to follow Jan Inge's example (scary I know) and serious look into getting myself a Notebook. So I can access the net easier while I travel, especially if things go the way as I think they are going to go. Meaning more travelling around Australia this time instead of the Northern countries.
But now instead of raw writings of the events you get to read the more processed thoughts, or correctly you get to read through me trying to process all that happened while I was in the north. That is if anyone is reading this blog! I would have thought that I have frustrated everyone away by now!

I am half way there

Well I know that this has been awhile since anyone has heard this voice and I have probaly bored every one away. But since I am on a mission trip, will just started one, I thought that this is the best way to keep people away of what I am up to.
So I have just arrived in Singapore, my first time here, though I wont see much as I will be flying out in about 1 hour. But it is nice to have this first leg of the journey out of the way, though I have another 14 hour flight soon!
So Finland and Norway here I come!!