tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62482502011-12-09T13:45:34.942-08:00up down underif australia is down under, why do so many places in it have names that end with up?Psychonut1noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248250.post-1072410800596557862003-12-25T19:53:00.000-08:002003-12-26T04:40:43.776-08:00God gave his son; Jesus gave himself, but he went even further than that...after giving more than we could ask for, Jesus allowed people to take from him. take his time, take his energy, take his power, and finally even take his dignity. he let himself be stripped bare and taken advantage of. he came as a servant king. yet everytime people took from him, he conquered. as they took his time Psychonut1noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248250.post-1072410486092465762003-12-24T19:48:00.000-08:002003-12-25T19:48:32.856-08:00it's 20 minutes to christmas. i feel like this year there's been no "build up" to christmas. i've been isolated from the world during the period i'm usually busy buying, distributing and wrapping christmas gifts to overplayed christmas carols. maybe it's a good thing, this retreat from the big circus that christmas has become. even so, thank you Lord Jesus for coming.
my fingers are numb. Psychonut1noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248250.post-1072410280227400902003-12-23T19:44:00.000-08:002003-12-25T19:45:13.546-08:00"praise the Lord
how good it is to sing praise to our God
how pleasant and fitting to praise him!" - psalm 147:1
o Lord, great and holy is your name, and i praise you that your glory reaches over the earth, whether in australia, singapore, california and even parts of the world my puny mind cannot conceive.
the lazy part of the holiday has started; i have even more time than before for quiet Psychonut1noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248250.post-1072410147944599092003-12-22T19:42:00.000-08:002003-12-25T19:42:59.143-08:00"the cup filled with the wine of fury of his wrath" - revelation 16:19
isn't "wine of fury" a beautiful phrase? it expresses precisely the mix of potency and something still festering that makes up fury, even while there is something romantically lethal about it. no deep insight here, that phrase just caught my fancy while i was reading the Bible today.Psychonut1noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248250.post-1072409952591701932003-12-21T19:39:00.000-08:002004-01-25T09:29:34.840-08:00visited the lake caves at margaret river today, it was a more than 200 step descend into the cave. i can only imagine when the first explorers entered the cave, what it must have been like. they had to abseil down a really tall tree into total darkness. there were artificial lights that make the cave both bearable and beautiful, but for a brief moment the tour guide turned off all the lights Psychonut1noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248250.post-1072409307512165632003-12-20T19:28:00.000-08:002003-12-25T19:31:02.870-08:00"the sovereign Lord is my strength
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer
he enables me to go on the heights" - habakkuk 3:19
i climbed a 61m tall tree today (that's almost 20 stories high)...it was scary, that goes without saying. i was climbing without any wire harness or safety net, so it was really just me against the wind, and that's obviously not a very fair match. the view at the top Psychonut1noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248250.post-1072408938926978032003-12-19T19:22:00.000-08:002003-12-26T04:43:23.133-08:00i stand in the rain
cold air on my face
i look at blue upon blue
of ocean
and wonder
if i stand long enough
if i listen hard enough
maybe the waves will
answer me
~~~
"the Lord is near to all who call on him
to all who call on him in truth...
my mouth will speak in praise of the Lord
let every creature praise his holy name
for ever and ever" - psalm 145:18,21
i think the word's beauty is Psychonut1noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248250.post-1072408651641827752003-12-18T19:17:00.000-08:002003-12-25T19:24:30.470-08:00"sweep me away
with your great love
carry me in your holy name"
visited cape le grande today. the ocean was three shades of blue, the sky added yet another shade. it was simply breathtaking and left me once more in awe of God's creation. the wind was crazily strong, if i let my body become totally relaxed it was strong enough to move me. it was equally strong later on when we walked out on Psychonut1noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248250.post-1072408479503156902003-12-17T19:14:00.000-08:002003-12-25T19:24:13.906-08:00i should be watching return of the king today, but it doesn't open in australia till the 26th of december...after all these days of counting down to december 17th!
flies everywhere, it's driving me mad. if there are any insects that annoy me, it's those that buzz, and the flies here just fly into your ear and buzz.
ok, i should stop complaining because it makes it sound like i'm having a Psychonut1noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248250.post-1072408218025926592003-12-16T19:06:00.000-08:002003-12-25T22:45:54.796-08:00i have been downgraded from blogging to microsoft word to an old-fashioned notepad. well, actually...writing things out is supposed to be good for getting in touch with one's spirit. i haven't had it so slow for as long as i can remember. i keep asking "so what are we going to do next?" and no one seems to have an answer. how can people live like this? just one day in this slow-paced world Psychonut1noreply@blogger.com0