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I see beauty

I see beauty

\'Hey bae... oh I mean barley.\' My voice bounces off the steel wall bunkers as I enthusiastically prepare myself for a day in paradise. Its 6:30 am and I\'m staring at a stack of grain. Feed Barley, in case you are remotely interested..

  • Liquescent Liberation

    The sweetness of salvation swept over me in May 2011. Unexpected and largely uninvited, God looked upon a wayward sinner and decreed, \'she is mine\'.

  • 20 years with the same woman is kind of boring isn't it?

    I once had a student challenge me with a question disguised as a statement: \'Have you been married THAT long? I couldn\'t do that! I would get bored with the one person!\'

  • Can you take the blessing?

    If you\'re anything like me, you like to think of yourself as a giver and not a taker. The exception would be if there\'s a bowl of chips and a large pot of guacamole in front of me, and then I\'m going to take as much as I can get.

  • Healthy eating

    Maslow identified food as a fundamental need in his famous hierarchy of needs. Food is indeed central in our lives. Some eat to live, others live to eat.

  • Switch on Your Brain!

    Thoughts are real, physical things that occupy mental real estate. Moment by moment, every day, you are changing the structure of your brain through your thinking.

  • Hope—one of the greatest

    Paul, addressing the Christians in the city of Corinth, refers to \'hope\' as one of the three greatest, along with faith and love. It is \'hope\' that has sustained me as a young follower of Jesus.

  • Don't let them tell you who you are.

    Bullying has no place in the schoolyard and it certainly has no place in the world of grown-ups.

  • The day I went viral

    As a youth group leader I remember a vivid discussion one day about our youths\' aspirations in life. With a typically Kiwi fear of expressing too much ambition a young person said \'I\'d love to be able to have a Top Comment on YouTube.\'

  • Why Pleasure will be the end of us

    As I write this, it\'s the start of the Christmas season of Advent, as we remember Jesus coming to earth as a baby.

  • Leicester City Continue to Prove Critics Wrong!

    Leicester City maintained their amazing form with a clinical 3-0 win away at Swansea City on Saturday to go two points clear at the summit of the Premier League table after 15 matches.

  • Social sanctions and speech controls

    The Nazi-youth are back, but this time under the guise of radical progressives and their intellectual book-burning agenda.