act justly. love mercy. walk humbly.

i spent the afternoon with some great friends. i had a bbq with most of my friends from work (and some who no longer work with us) down at jodie's. we had a great time, with too much food as per usual. non stop chatter and laughter, aslo as per usual. i think that i should mention chris. thanks chris for reading my blogs (chris is tam's husband).

act justly. love mercy. walk humbly.
this is how God wants us to live. day in, day out, when we feel like it, when we don't.

darryl crowden spoke at church tonight. he's a salvo officer from our church who spent the first three months of the year working in sri lanka with salvo emergency relief efforts after the tsunami. he spoke very powerfully, finishing with the idea that God doesn't ask us if we are able, just if we are available. that word keeps popping up in my life at the moment. everytime it does, i know that the choices i have made about my immediate future are the right ones. he told us about some of the things he had done in sri lanka. one thing they were working on was getting new houses built. each house only cost about $800 aussie dollars. by now, he said, the salvo's in the area he was working in had managed to get 50 (i think) new homes built. i still find it so hard to comprehend what those people would be going through. one couple on a video he showed, had lost their 3 children - all swept out of their arms. their house, gone. they were hoping for a new house to live in so they could start to rebuild their lives. darryl told us that they are way down the list for a house because they do not have children. the other night i happened to watch the news. the first 10 minutes was all about how the socceroos had qualified for the world cup. not won it, just qualified. now, while i do love sport, and am excited about the socceroo's, at the time i said isn't there anything else going on in the world right now? there is.