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Colours are philosophical

Colours are philosophical

I for one enjoy colour. My wife enjoys colour and buying outfits for the grand children with lovely colours. Colour plays a huge part of any situation or celebration..

  • No Contact Sports

    Whether it is war or famine or any other catastrophe, humanity has a remarkable ability to adjust to the most extreme of circumstances.

  • Strengthener

    Though approaching 40 years as an ordained pastor, the Lord has been challenging me recently about a ministry of strengthening others.

  • Blue tape came with the diesel

    Train running according to the Footplate Padre was centre with the transition from steam to diesel in the late 1950s-60s, a new era for locomotive crews came into being. One of these related to the nature of keeping the train running. 

  • No, can’t be - suitcases on airlines missing

    Yes it is true -  our own News.com reported in a recent article that 26 million suitcases a year go missing with airline travel world wide.

  • Born with a sense of entitlement

    No one sits us down at the beginning of our lives and tells us how many years of this strange thing called \'life\' we are going to get. But somehow and from somewhere, we have a preconceived notion that we automatically have been given an allocated amount of years and comforts, such as money, friends, a house even the creature comforts... like it\'s our \'right.\'

  • Persecution in Ethiopia and Syria

    Persecution can be deliberate and targeted, as in Ethiopia, or it may be a consequence of some well-intentioned but not well thought out legislation, as in Syria.

  • War veterans – all over the media 

    It is all over the media. Will there be yet another Royal Commission, this time on the on-going support and health of our returning troops and why so many do themselves in.

  • Still in our back yard 

    Has anything changed? Recent arrests suggest not. Islamic terrorism in Australia has not diminished and we need to be as alert as ever. Compliancy should not be part of our quiver.

  • Cutting through the noise

    We live in a noisy world.

  • Acting Christian rather than white

    Australia’s modern history has a past filled with struggle, sweat, heartbreak and tears.

  • Diesel the Dog

    I needed a new sheepdog; we’d just moved from the edge of town 25km south and increased our sheep numbers considerably.