October 28, 2005
Summer
Yesterday and today have felt like the
beginning of summer!
Hot, dry air
Basking in sunshine.
Washing dry in no time
I like the change of seasons
and everytme the seasons change i wonder
if i like this change the best
but no
all good
i think the creator did a good job!
October 26, 2005
Amazing!
A colleague has just thanked me for some work I sent,
with a two-line email
"Thanks Lynne
You're amazing!"
I feel absuredly pleased.
Pleased that someone has acknowledged my work,
that a busy someone took a minute, possibly two
to thank me.
So easy to do.
Easier to neglect.
And yet warm-fuzzy making.
I was thinking along similar lines earlier today
about how nice it is to be amongst people who encourage
who affirm.
May we be people who use the brief moments required
to bless others.
October 20, 2005
Yeah, right
It WAS working, honest.
Now Steve's number seems to have been disconnected.
Don't cha love technology!
I am becoming friendly with a variety of Telecom staff.
A technological breakthrough (?!!)
We have finally bought a new cell phone
to replace the one that the keys don't all(ways) work on.
So nice new phone for Steve (with his old number)
and old phone for me with new number.
Several calls to Telecom
and getting the phone to do clever things it is not usually required to do
have finallly got it sorted.
Yesterday, two cell phones, neither of which was working
Today, both working.
Yay.
October 19, 2005
Spring...
Just found this pic in my digi camera
Remembering a gorgeous day in the gardens...
October 16, 2005
Doctor, doctor
I was interested to read in Saturday's Press
of the Catholic doctor in Nelson who has told his patients he will no longer prescribe contraceptives because of his faith.
I think it is great...
Good on Doctor Hassan, for lining up his practise/practice(!) with his beliefs.
(Also full marks to him for writing and telling his patients... good process!)
Full article here
October 14, 2005
Off to da rugby
Semi final of the npc tonight
otago vs canterbury
Haven't gotten to a game this season,
so when brother-in-law phoned
and said he was coming over from the coast
it seemed like a good opportunity!
So the girls and I are off
Steve is in auckland
(S&K were very worried that he would miss out)
October 13, 2005
on eating... together ...
Here is (part of) the quote Sarah ended with on Tuesday night:
To be sure, Christians should critique both the dieting industry and the fast-food industry. And surely Christians are called to neither gluttony nor Gnosticism.
But we can do more than critique. We can also model something radically different—a relationship to food driven by Christian notions of joy and peace—and non-compulsiveness.
We can model homes and communities where people leave work in time to cook dinner, making time even to cook with our children. We can seek to eat food grown in our local communities, sending our food dollars not to conglomerates but to a farmer a few miles away. We can resist the social pressure to enroll our kids in 17 different after-school activities so that family and friends can gather around the dinner table together. We can remember that eating a meal together sits at the heart of Christian communal life—and is the very image of the kingdom of heaven (Isa. 25:6).
I like it.
Link to whole article http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/009/33.103.html
October 12, 2005
... by God
Last nights espresso question was around body image/exercise/health.
A very good discussion.
Sarah ended the discussion with a great quote I will try to source...
I did the "ending"
read psalm 139 and gave people a word
- one of loved, cherished, created, redeemed, sustained -
for them to reflect on:
what does it mean for you to be _______ by God
as we listened to Cold Play (track 4 and 13 off X&Y)
Prayer for a couple who needed it
And then we got to take all the words home.
A nice, gentle, peaceful time.
October 06, 2005
You know how when you hold a sea shell to your ear...
... you can hear the sea?
Yeah
Well I can hear the sea withOUT a seashell to my ear.
Silly head-cold/flu
Dodgy ears and head.
All sorts of strange noises in my head.
Keep thinking it is raining.
Next I will be imagining fairies in the garden!
A garden fairy
There was a fairy in my garden this morning.
A wonderful, weeding fairy.
She pulled clover and other assorted weeds
and has left a lovely neat garden.
She was just there, suddenly,
when I looked out my window.
Refusing all offers of food and drink
she has now disappeared off
- flitted home -
to the realities of her day.
Thanks, lovely gardening fairy!