words from australia and the bible

thanks to stephanie being here (one of the new igniters), i have rediscovered/remembered some aussie words that i should have never let slip from my vocabulary. these (and their translations for the non aussies) include:
- starkers; to be naked
- arvo; afternoon
- bonza; really really good
- good as, sweet as, hot as, flat as, nice as; basically any desribing word with an 'as' on the end like you were going to compare it with something but then not
- ripper; also really really good
- crikey; a word used to describe bewilderment
- pash; to kiss (i hadn't forgotten this one actually)
- sanger; a sandwich
(there are more that have temporarily left my mind, please feel free to leave a comment with as many other aussie words that you can remember to keep my vocabularly in check!)
i have also had the joy of watching 2 people try vegemite for the first time - 1 liked it, the other did not.

speaking of australia, tomorrow, my beloved sister (kez), along with her husband hil and my most gorgeous little nephew, daniel, will be leaving on a jet plane to head to our home of melbourne. i am a little jealous, though i wish them the greatest holiday. all you melbournians, look out for them and give them a block of cadbury black forest to bring home for me!

anyway, we are having a great time at jackson, some great laughs and learning times to. i am loving the discussion that we have been having. last night after dinner one topic that came up was about how Christians often like to 'rank' sins. for example, lying is not nearly as bad as murdering, or gossip is not as bad as adultery. unfortunately(?) for us, the bible says that all sin is sin. it doesn't seem to give any other explanation than 'the wages of sin is death'. not some sins. not just the bad sins. but sin. hmmm. now, what 'death' means, is hell. what is hell....well that's at least another blog, which i will do sometime very soon i promise. i am just thankful that i have a Saviour who has paid the price for all my sin (the 'big' and 'little' ones i have and will commit). i think brad keeps getting into my head and stealing my blog ideas before i get to write about them, his latest included a bit on judgement and how we should be speaking the truth in love - also part of our discussion - we talked about when it is our duty and when it is not our duty to tell others when we can see their sin. many people say that we shouldn't judge, but what the bible really says about that is that if we judge, then be prepared to be judged by the same rules. hmmmm.

thats probably enough for today.

one last comment - special mention to the flush who came up to visit and also was the conversation starter after dinner last night.